Multilocus phylogeny of Sciurini tree squirrels

0395576 - ÚBO 2014 CZ eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Pečnerová, P. - Martínková, Natália
Multilocus phylogeny of Sciurini tree squirrels.
Proceedings of the 8th Summer School in Computational Biology: From analysis of genomic data to clinical applications - case studies. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2012 - (Budinská, E.; Popovici, V.), s. 55-63. ISBN 978-80-7204-804-5.
[Summer School on Computational Biology /8./. Mikulov (CZ), 12.09.2012-15.09.2012]
Institutional support: RVO:68081766
Keywords : phylogeny * supermatrix * supertree * squirrels
Subject RIV: EG - Zoology

Phylogenetic relationships inside the tribe Sciurini produce conflict between older morphological research and modern molecular studies. We provided a detailed phylogenetic analysis by incorporating eight loci and various methods of data processing. We used prevailing and user-friendly software packages (Geneious, BioEdit, MrBayes, ModelTest). Evolutionary history of Sciurini squirrels was examined by means of Bayesian inference of concatenated data set and six supertree construction methods. The concatenated data and supertrees generated by SuperTriplets, modified MinCut, standard MRP and veto supertree (without source tree correction) yielded similar results with taxa grouped according to their zoogeographic distribution. The genus Tamiasciurus formed a separate evolutionary lineage at the base of our trees and the other taxa gradually diverged into Palaearctic/Indomalayan, Nearctic and Neotropical groups. The other used methods, MinCut, Purvis-MRP and veto (with source tree correction) showed deviations from this pattern.
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