Coalescent-Based Analyses of Genomic Sequence Data Provide a Robust Resolution of Phylogenetic Relationships among Major Groups of Gibbons

• Published in: Molecular biology and evolution Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 159 - 179
• Main Authors: Shi, Cheng-Min, Yang, Ziheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Algorithms; Animals; Bayes Theorem; Bayesian analysis; Computer Simulation; Datasets; Discordance; Discoveries; Evolution, Molecular; Expressed sequence tags; Gene flow; Gene sequencing; Genetic Speciation; Genetics, Population - methods; Genomes; Genomics; Genomics - methods; Heterogeneity; Hylobates - classification; Hylobates - genetics; Likelihood ratio; Models, Genetic; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Sequence Analysis, DNA - methods; Speciation; Species; anomaly zone; species tree; concatenation; gene tree; SVDquartets; gibbon; coalescent; bpp; astral

Abstract The phylogenetic relationships among extant gibbon species remain unresolved despite numerous efforts using morphological, behavorial, and genetic data and the sequencing of whole genomes. A major challenge in reconstructing the gibbon phylogeny is the radiative speciation process, which re...