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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
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Hemiplasy and homoplasy in the karyotypic phylogenies of mammals
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 105, No. 38, Year 2008
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Description
Phylogenetic reconstructions are often plagued by difficulties in distinguishing phylogenetic signal (due to shared ancestry) from phylogenetic noise or homoplasy (due to character-state convergences or reversals). We use a new interpretive hypothesis, termed hemiplasy, to show how random lineage sorting might account for specific instances of seeming "phylogenetic discordance" among different chromosomal traits, or between karyotypic features and probable species phylogenies. We posit that hemiplasy is generally less likely for underdominant chromosomal polymorphisms (i.e., those with heterozygous disadvantage) than for neutral polymorphisms or especially for overdominant rearrangements (which should tend to be longer-lived), and we illustrate this concept by using examples from chiropterans and afrotherians. Chromosomal states are especially powerful in phylogenetic reconstructions because they offer strong signatures of common ancestry, but their evolutionary interpretations remain fully subject to the principles of cladistics and the potential complications of hemiplasy. © 2008 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
Authors & Co-Authors
Robinson, Terence J.
South Africa, Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University
Ruiz-Herrera, Aurora
Italy, Pavia
Università Degli Studi Di Pavia
Avise, John C.
United States, Irvine
University of California, Irvine
Statistics
Citations: 49
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1073/pnas.0807433105
ISSN:
00278424
Research Areas
Genetics And Genomics