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. 2016 Oct:103:75-84.
doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.002. Epub 2016 Jul 6.

Methodological congruence in phylogenomic analyses with morphological support for teiid lizards (Sauria: Teiidae)

Derek B Tucker  1 , Guarino R Colli  2 , Lilian G Giugliano  3 , S Blair Hedges  4 , Catriona R Hendry  5 , Emily Moriarty Lemmon  6 , Alan R Lemmon  7 , Jack W Sites Jr  8 , R Alexander Pyron  5
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Methodological congruence in phylogenomic analyses with morphological support for teiid lizards (Sauria: Teiidae)

Derek B Tucker et al. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2016 Oct.

Abstract

A well-known issue in phylogenetics is discordance among gene trees, species trees, morphology, and other data types. Gene-tree discordance is often caused by incomplete lineage sorting, lateral gene transfer, and gene duplication. Multispecies-coalescent methods can account for incomplete lineage sorting and are believed by many to be more accurate than concatenation. However, simulation studies and empirical data have demonstrated that concatenation and species tree methods often recover similar topologies. We use three popular methods of phylogenetic reconstruction (one concatenation, two species tree) to evaluate relationships within Teiidae. These lizards are distributed across the United States to Argentina and the West Indies, and their classification has been controversial due to incomplete sampling and the discordance among various character types (chromosomes, DNA, musculature, osteology, etc.) used to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships. Recent morphological and molecular analyses of the group resurrected three genera and created five new genera to resolve non-monophyly in three historically ill-defined genera: Ameiva, Cnemidophorus, and Tupinambis. Here, we assess the phylogenetic relationships of the Teiidae using "next-generation" anchored-phylogenomics sequencing. Our final alignment includes 316 loci (488,656bp DNA) for 244 individuals (56 species of teiids, representing all currently recognized genera) and all three methods (ExaML, MP-EST, and ASTRAL-II) recovered essentially identical topologies. Our results are basically in agreement with recent results from morphology and smaller molecular datasets, showing support for monophyly of the eight new genera. Interestingly, even with hundreds of loci, the relationships among some genera in Tupinambinae remain ambiguous (i.e. low nodal support for the position of Salvator and Dracaena).

Keywords: Anchored phylogenomics; Concatenation; Species tree; Systematics; Tegu; Whiptail.

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