MBE Advance Access originally published online on August 1, 2006
Molecular Biology and Evolution 2006 23(11):2049-2057; doi:10.1093/molbev/msl075
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The Evolutionary Origin of Xanthomonadales Genomes and the Nature of the Horizontal Gene Transfer Process
* Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
E-mail: inaki.comas{at}uv.es.
Determining the influence of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) on phylogenomic analyses and the retrieval of a tree of life is relevant for our understanding of microbial genome evolution. It is particularly difficult to differentiate between phylogenetic incongruence due to noise and that resulting from HGT. We have performed a large-scale, detailed evolutionary analysis of the different phylogenetic signals present in the genomes of Xanthomonadales, a group of Proteobacteria. We show that the presence of phylogenetic noise is not an obstacle to infer past and present HGTs during their evolution. The scenario derived from this analysis and other recently published reports reflect the confounding effects on bacterial phylogenomics of past and present HGT. Although transfers between closely related species are difficult to detect in genome-scale phylogenetic analyses, past transfers to the ancestor of extant groups appear as conflicting signals that occasionally might make impossible to determine the evolutionary origin of the whole genome.
Key Words: phylogenomics • microbial evolution • conflicting phylogenetic signals • horizontal gene transfer
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