False phylogenies on wood mice due to cryptic cytochrome-b pseudogene.

Animals; Base Sequence; Bayes Theorem; Cytochromes b/genetics; DNA, Mitochondrial/genetics; Europe; Evolution, Molecular; Genes, Mitochondrial; Genetic Variation; Haplotypes; Likelihood Functions; Molecular Sequence Data; Murinae/classification/genetics; Phylogeny; Pseudogenes; Sequence Analysis, DNA

Abstract :

[en] The phylogeny and phylogeography of the Old World wood mice (subgenus Sylvaemus, genus Apodemus, Muridae) are well-documented. Nevertheless, the distributions of species, such as A. fulvipectus and A. ponticus remain dubious, as well as their phylogenetic relationships with A. sylvaticus. We analysed samples of Apodemus spp. across Europe using the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene (cyt-b) and compared the DNA and amino-acid compositions of previously published sequences. The main result stemming from this study is the presence of a well-differentiated lineage of Sylvaemus including samples of various species (A. sylvaticus, A. fulvipectus, A. ponticus) from distant locations, which were revealed to be nuclear copies of the mitochondrial cyt-b. The presence of this cryptic pseudogene in published sequences is supported by different pathways. This has led to important errors in previous molecular trees and hence to partial misinterpretations in the phylogeny of Apodemus.

Disciplines :

Zoology

Author, co-author :

Dubey, Sylvain

Michaux, Johan ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la vie > Génétique

Brunner, Harald

Hutterer, Rainer

Vogel, Peter

Language :

English

Title :

False phylogenies on wood mice due to cryptic cytochrome-b pseudogene.

Publication date :

2009

Journal title :

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

ISSN :

1055-7903

eISSN :

1095-9513

Publisher :

Academic Press, San Diego, United States - California

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

633-41

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