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Molecular Biology and Evolution, doi:10.1093/molbev/msj027
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Accepted September 19, 2005

Research Article

Rate Asymmetry After Genome Duplication Causes Substantial Long Branch Attraction Artifacts in the Phylogeny of Saccharomyces Species

Mario A. Fares 1, Kevin P. Byrne 2, and Kenneth H. Wolfe 2*

1 Department of Genetics, Smurfit Institute, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland; Department of Biology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
2 Department of Genetics, Smurfit Institute, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Kenneth H. Wolfe, E-mail: khwolfe{at}tcd.ie


  Abstract

Whole genome duplication (WGD) produces sets of gene pairs that are all the same age. We therefore expect that phylogenetic trees that relate these pairs to their orthologs in other species should show a single consistent topology. However, a previous study of gene pairs formed by WGD in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae found conflicting topologies among Neighbor-Joining trees drawn from different loci, and suggested that this conflict was the result of ‘asynchronous functional divergence’ of duplicated genes (R.B. Langkjaer et al., Nature 421:848-852, 2003). Here we test whether the conflicting topologies might instead be due to asymmetrical rates of evolution leading to long branch attraction (LBA) artifacts in phylogenetic trees. We constructed trees for 433 pairs of WGD paralogs in S. cerevisiae with their single orthologs in S. kluyveri and Candida albicans. We find a strong correlation between the asymmetry of evolutionary rates of a pair of S. cerevisiae paralogs and the topology of the tree inferred for that pair. S. cerevisiae gene pairs with approximately equal rates of evolution tend to give phylogenies in which the WGD post-dates the speciation between S. cerevisiae and S. kluyveri ("B-trees"), whereas trees drawn from gene pairs with asymmetrical rates tend to show WGD pre-dating this speciation ("A-trees"). Gene order data from throughout the genome indicates that the A-trees are artifacts, even though more than 50% of gene pairs are inferred to have this topology when the Neighbor-Joining method as implemented in ClustalW (i.e., with Poisson correction of distances) is used to construct the trees. This LBA artifact can be ameliorated, but not eliminated, by using gamma-corrected distances or by using maximum-likelihood trees with robustness estimated by the Shimodaira-Hasegawa test. Tests for adaptive evolution indicated that positive selection might be the cause of rate asymmetry in a substantial fraction (19%) of the paralog pairs.

Keywords: Accelerated substitution rates; Genome duplication; Saccharomyces; Long branch attraction.
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