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Citation title: "A phylogenomic approach to resolve the arthropod tree of life".

Study name: "A phylogenomic approach to resolve the arthropod tree of life".

This study is part of submission 10497 (Status: Published).

Citation

Meusemann K., Von reumont B., Simon S., Roeding F., Strauss S., K?ck P., Ebersberger I., Walzl M., Pass G., Breuers S., Achter V., Von haeseler A., Burmester T., Hadrys H., W?gele J., & Misof B. 2010. A phylogenomic approach to resolve the arthropod tree of life. Molecular Biology and Evolution, .

Authors

• Meusemann K.
• Von reumont B.
• Simon S. (submitter)
• Roeding F.
• Strauss S.
• K?ck P.
• Ebersberger I.
• Walzl M.
• Pass G.
• Breuers S.
• Achter V.
• Von haeseler A.
• Burmester T.
• Hadrys H.
• W?gele J.
• Misof B.

Abstract

Arthropods were the first animals to conquer land and air. They encompass more than three quarters of all described living species. This extraordinary evolutionary success is based on an astoundingly wide array of highly adaptive body organizations. A lack of robustly resolved phylogenetic relationships, however, currently impedes the reliable reconstruction of the underlying evolutionary processes. Here, we show that phylogenomic data can substantially advance our understanding of arthropod evolution and resolve several conflicts among existing hypotheses. We assembled a data set of 233 taxa and 775 genes from which an optimally informative data set of 117 taxa and 129 genes was finally selected using new heuristics and compared to the unreduced data set. We included novel EST data for eleven species and all published phylogenomic data augmented by recently published EST data on taxonomically important arthropod taxa. This thorough sampling reduces the chance of obtaining spurious results due to stochastic effects of undersampling taxa and genes. Orthology prediction of genes, alignment masking tools, and selection of most informative genes due to a balanced taxa-gene ratio using new heuristics were established. Our optimized data set robustly resolves major arthropod relationships. We received strong support for a sister group relationship of onychophorans and euarthropods, and strong support for a close association of tardigrades and cycloneuralia. Within pancrustaceans, our analyses yielded paraphyletic crustaceans and monophyletic hexapods, and robustly resolved monophyletic endopterygote insects. However, our analyses also showed for few deep splits that were recently thought to be resolved, for example the position of myriapods, a remarkable sensitivity to methods of analyses.

Keywords

arthropod phylogeny, phylogenomics, Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs), supermatrix, matrix saturation, relative informativeness

External links

• DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq130
• Other URL: http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/msq130

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• Canonical resource URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S10507
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  		@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref18952,
  	 author = {Karen  Meusemann and Bj?rn M.  von Reumont and Sabrina  Simon and Falko  Roeding and Sascha  Strauss and Patrick  K?ck and Ingo  Ebersberger and Manfred  Walzl and G?nther  Pass and Sebastian  Breuers and Viktor  Achter and Arndt  von Haeseler and Thorsten  Burmester and Heike  Hadrys and J. Wolfgang  W?gele and Bernhard  Misof},
  	 title = {A phylogenomic approach to resolve the arthropod tree of life},
  	 year = {2010},
  	 keywords = {arthropod phylogeny, phylogenomics, Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs), supermatrix, matrix saturation, relative informativeness},
  	 doi = {10.1093/molbev/msq130},
  	 url = {http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/msq130},
  	 pmid = {},
  	 journal = {Molecular Biology and Evolution},
  	 volume = {},
  	 number = {},
  	 pages = {},
  	 abstract = {Arthropods were the first animals to conquer land and air. They encompass more than three quarters of all described living species. This extraordinary evolutionary success is based on an astoundingly wide array of highly adaptive body organizations. A lack of robustly resolved phylogenetic relationships, however, currently impedes the reliable reconstruction of the underlying evolutionary processes. Here, we show that phylogenomic data can substantially advance our understanding of arthropod evolution and resolve several conflicts among existing hypotheses. We assembled a data set of 233 taxa and 775 genes from which an optimally informative data set of 117 taxa and 129 genes was finally selected using new heuristics and compared to the unreduced data set. We included novel EST data for eleven species and all published phylogenomic data augmented by recently published EST data on taxonomically important arthropod taxa. This thorough sampling reduces the chance of obtaining spurious results due to stochastic effects of undersampling taxa and genes. Orthology prediction of genes, alignment masking tools, and selection of most informative genes due to a balanced taxa-gene ratio using new heuristics were established. Our optimized data set robustly resolves major arthropod relationships. We received strong support for a sister group relationship of onychophorans and euarthropods, and strong support for a close association of tardigrades and cycloneuralia. Within pancrustaceans, our analyses yielded paraphyletic crustaceans and monophyletic hexapods, and robustly resolved monophyletic endopterygote insects. However, our analyses also showed for few deep splits that were recently thought to be resolved, for example the position of myriapods, a remarkable sensitivity to methods of analyses. }
  }
  		

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  		TY  - JOUR
  ID  - 18952
  AU  - Meusemann,Karen 
  AU  - von Reumont,Bj?rn M. 
  AU  - Simon,Sabrina 
  AU  - Roeding,Falko 
  AU  - Strauss,Sascha 
  AU  - K?ck,Patrick 
  AU  - Ebersberger,Ingo 
  AU  - Walzl,Manfred 
  AU  - Pass,G?nther 
  AU  - Breuers,Sebastian 
  AU  - Achter,Viktor 
  AU  - von Haeseler,Arndt 
  AU  - Burmester,Thorsten 
  AU  - Hadrys,Heike 
  AU  - W?gele,J. Wolfgang 
  AU  - Misof,Bernhard 
  T1  - A phylogenomic approach to resolve the arthropod tree of life
  PY  - 2010
  KW  - arthropod phylogeny
  KW  - phylogenomics
  KW  - Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs)
  KW  - supermatrix
  KW  - matrix saturation
  KW  - relative informativeness
  UR  - http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/msq130
  N2  - Arthropods were the first animals to conquer land and air. They encompass more than three quarters of all described living species. This extraordinary evolutionary success is based on an astoundingly wide array of highly adaptive body organizations. A lack of robustly resolved phylogenetic relationships, however, currently impedes the reliable reconstruction of the underlying evolutionary processes. Here, we show that phylogenomic data can substantially advance our understanding of arthropod evolution and resolve several conflicts among existing hypotheses. We assembled a data set of 233 taxa and 775 genes from which an optimally informative data set of 117 taxa and 129 genes was finally selected using new heuristics and compared to the unreduced data set. We included novel EST data for eleven species and all published phylogenomic data augmented by recently published EST data on taxonomically important arthropod taxa. This thorough sampling reduces the chance of obtaining spurious results due to stochastic effects of undersampling taxa and genes. Orthology prediction of genes, alignment masking tools, and selection of most informative genes due to a balanced taxa-gene ratio using new heuristics were established. Our optimized data set robustly resolves major arthropod relationships. We received strong support for a sister group relationship of onychophorans and euarthropods, and strong support for a close association of tardigrades and cycloneuralia. Within pancrustaceans, our analyses yielded paraphyletic crustaceans and monophyletic hexapods, and robustly resolved monophyletic endopterygote insects. However, our analyses also showed for few deep splits that were recently thought to be resolved, for example the position of myriapods, a remarkable sensitivity to methods of analyses. 
  L3  - 10.1093/molbev/msq130
  JF  - Molecular Biology and Evolution
  VL  - 
  IS  - 
  ER  -