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In biology, phylogenetics [1][2] (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον - phylé, phylon = tribe, clan, race + γενετικός - genetikós = origin, source, birth)[3] is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among individuals or groups of organisms (e.g. species, or populations). These relationships are discovered through phylogenetic inference methods that evaluate observed heritable traits, such as DNA sequences or morphology under a model of evolution of these traits. The result of these analyses is a phylogeny (also known as a phylogenetic tree) – a diagrammatic hypothesis about the history of the evolutionary relationships of a group of organisms.[4] The tips of a phylogenetic tree can be living organisms or fossils, and represent the "end," or the present, in an evolutionary lineage. Phylogenetic analyses have become central to understanding biodiversity, evolution, ecology, and genomes.
Taxonomy is the classification, identification and naming of organisms. It is usually richly informed by phylogenetics, but remains a methodologically and logically distinct discipline.[5] The degree to which taxonomies depend on phylogenies (or classification depends on evolutionary development) differs depending on the school of taxonomy: phenetics ignores phylogeny altogether, trying to represent the similarity between organisms instead; cladistics (phylogenetic systematics) tries to reproduce phylogeny in its classification without loss of information; evolutionary taxonomy tries to find a compromise between them.
Contents
- 1 Construction of a phylogenetic tree
- 2 History
- 2.1 Ernst Haeckel's recapitulation theory
- 2.2 Timeline of key events
- 3 See also
- 4 References
- 5 Bibliography
- 6 External links
Construction of a phylogenetic tree
Main article: Computational phylogenetics
Usual methods of phylogenetic inference involve computational approaches implementing the optimality criteria and methods of parsimony, maximum likelihood (ML), and MCMC-based Bayesian inference. All these depend upon an implicit or explicit mathematical model describing the evolution of characters observed.
Phenetics, popular in the mid-20th century but now largely obsolete, used distance matrix-based methods to construct trees based on overall similarity in morphology or other observable traits (i.e. in the phenotype, not the DNA), which was often assumed to approximate phylogenetic relationships.
Prior to 1990, phylogenetic inferences were generally presented as narrative scenarios. Such methods are often ambiguous and lack explicit criteria for evaluating alternative hypotheses.[6][7][8]
History
The term "phylogeny" derives from the German Phylogenie, introduced by Haeckel in 1866,[9] and the Darwinian approach to classification became known as the "phyletic" approach.
Ernst Haeckel's recapitulation theory
During the late 19th century, Ernst Haeckel's recapitulation theory, or "biogenetic fundamental law", was widely accepted. It was often expressed as "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", i.e. the development of a single organism during its lifetime, from germ to adult, successively mirrors the adult stages of successive ancestors of the species to which it belongs. But this theory has long been rejected.[11][12] Instead, ontogeny evolves – the phylogenetic history of a species cannot be read directly from its ontogeny, as Haeckel thought would be possible, but characters from ontogeny can be (and have been) used as data for phylogenetic analyses; the more closely related two species are, the more apomorphies their embryos share.
Timeline of key events
Branching tree diagram from Heinrich Georg Bronn's work (1858)
Phylogenetic tree suggested by Haeckel (1866)
- 14th century, lex parsimoniae (parsimony principle), William of Ockam, English philosopher, theologian, and Franciscan monk, but the idea actually goes back to Aristotle, precursor concept
- 1763, Bayesian probability, Rev. Thomas Bayes,[13] precursor concept
- 18th century, Pierre Simon (Marquis de Laplace), perhaps 1st to use ML (maximum likelihood), precursor concept
- 1809, evolutionary theory, Philosophie Zoologique, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, precursor concept, foreshadowed in the 17th century and 18th century by Voltaire, Descartes, and Leibniz, with Leibniz even proposing evolutionary changes to account for observed gaps suggesting that many species had become extinct, others transformed, and different species that share common traits may have at one time been a single race,[14] also foreshadowed by some early Greek philosophers such as Anaximander in the 6th century BC and the atomists of the 5th century BC, who proposed rudimentary theories of evolution[15]
- 1837, Darwin's notebooks show an evolutionary tree[16]
- 1843, distinction between homology and analogy (the latter now referred to as homoplasy), Richard Owen, precursor concept
- 1858, Paleontologist Heinrich Georg Bronn (1800–1862) published a hypothetical tree to illustrating the paleontological "arrival" of new, similar species following the extinction of an older species. Bronn did not propose a mechanism responsible for such phenomena, precursor concept.[17]
- 1858, elaboration of evolutionary theory, Darwin and Wallace,[18] also in Origin of Species by Darwin the following year, precursor concept
- 1866, Ernst Haeckel, first publishes his phylogeny-based evolutionary tree, precursor concept
- 1893, Dollo's Law of Character State Irreversibility,[19] precursor concept
- 1912, ML recommended, analyzed, and popularized by Ronald Fisher, precursor concept
- 1921, Tillyard uses term "phylogenetic" and distinguishes between archaic and specialized characters in his classification system[20]
- 1940, term "clade" coined by Lucien Cuénot
- 1949, Jackknife_resampling, Maurice Quenouille (foreshadowed in '46 by Mahalanobis and extended in '58 by Tukey), precursor concept
- 1950, Willi Hennig's classic formalization[21]
- 1952, William Wagner's groundplan divergence method[22]
- 1953, "cladogenesis" coined[23]
- 1960, "cladistic" coined by Cain and Harrison[24]
- 1963, 1st attempt to use ML (maximum likelihood) for phylogenetics, Edwards and Cavalli-Sforza[25]
- 1965
- Camin-Sokal parsimony, 1st parsimony (optimization) criterion and 1st computer program/algorithm for cladistic analysis both by Camin and Sokal[26]
- character compatibility method, also called clique analysis, introduced independently by Camin and Sokal (loc. cit.) and E. O. Wilson[27]
- 1966
- English translation of Hennig[28]
- "cladistics" and "cladogram" coined (Webster's, loc. cit.)
- 1969
- dynamic and successive weighting, James Farris[29]
- Wagner parsimony, Kluge and Farris[30]
- CI (consistency index), Kluge and Farris[30]
- introduction of pairwise compatibility for clique analysis, Le Quesne[31]
- 1970, Wagner parsimony generalized by Farris[32]
- 1971
- Fitch parsimony, Fitch[33]
- NNI (nearest neighbour interchange), 1st branch-swapping search strategy, developed independently by Robinson[34] and Moore et al.
- ME (minimum evolution), Kidd and Sgaramella-Zonta[35] (it is unclear if this is the pairwise distance method or related to ML as Edwards and Cavalli-Sforza call ML "minimum evolution".)
- 1972, Adams consensus, Adams[36]
- 1974, 1st successful application of ML to phylogenetics (for nucleotide sequences), Neyman[37]
- 1976, prefix system for ranks, Farris[38]
- 1977, Dollo parsimony, Farris[39]
- 1979
- Nelson consensus, Nelson[40]
- MAST (maximum agreement subtree)((GAS)greatest agreement subtree), a consensus method, Gordon [41]
- bootstrap, Bradley Efron, precursor concept[42]
- 1980, PHYLIP, 1st software package for phylogenetic analysis, Felsenstein
- 1981
- majority consensus, Margush and MacMorris[43]
- strict consensus, Sokal and Rohlf[44]
- 1st computationally efficient ML algorithm, Felsenstein[45]
- 1982
- PHYSIS, Mikevich and Farris
- branch and bound, Hendy and Penny[46]
- 1985
- 1st cladistic analysis of eukaryotes based on combined phenotypic and genotypic evidence Diana Lipscomb[47]
- 1st issue of Cladistics
- 1st phylogenetic application of bootstrap, Felsenstein[48]
- 1st phylogenetic application of jackknife, Scott Lanyon[49]
- 1986, MacClade, Maddison and Maddison
- 1987, neighbor-joining method Saitou and Nei[50]
- 1988, Hennig86 (version 1.5), Farris
- Bremer support (decay index), Bremer [51]
- 1989
- RI (retention index), RCI (rescaled consistency index), Farris[52]
- HER (homoplasy excess ratio), Archie[53]
- 1990
- combinable components (semi-strict) consensus, Bremer[54]
- SPR (subtree pruning and regrafting), TBR (tree bisection and reconnection), Swofford and Olsen[55]
- 1991
- DDI (data decisiveness index), Goloboff[56][57]
- 1st cladistic analysis of eukaryotes based only on phenotypic evidence, Lipscomb
- 1993, implied weighting Goloboff[58]
- 1994, reduced consensus: RCC (reduced cladistic consensus) for rooted trees, Wilkinson[59]
- 1995, reduced consensus RPC (reduced partition consensus) for unrooted trees, Wilkinson[60]
- 1996, 1st working methods for BI (Bayesian Inference)independently developed by Li,[61] Mau,[62] and Rannala and Yang[63] and all using MCMC (Markov chain-Monte Carlo)
- 1998, TNT (Tree Analysis Using New Technology), Goloboff, Farris, and Nixon
- 1999, Winclada, Nixon
- 2003, symmetrical resampling, Goloboff[64]
See also
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
- Bauplan
- Bioinformatics
- Biomathematics
- Cladistics
- Coalescent theory
- Computational phylogenetics
- EDGE of Existence programme
- Evolutionary taxonomy
- Joe Felsenstein
- Language family
- Maximum parsimony
- Microbial phylogenetics
- Molecular phylogeny
- Noogenesis
- Ontogeny
- Ontogeny (psychoanalysis)
- PhyloCode
- Phylodynamics
- Phylogenesis
- Phylogenetic comparative methods
- Phylogenetic network
- Phylogenetic nomenclature
- Phylogenetic tree
- Phylogenetic tree viewers
- Phylogenetics software
- Phylogenomics
- Phylogeny (psychoanalysis)
- Phylogeography
- Systematics
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External links
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- The Tree of Life
- Interactive Tree of Life
- PhyloCode
- ExploreTree
- UCMP Exhibit Halls: Phylogeny Wing
- Willi Hennig Society
- Filogenetica.org in Spanish
- PhyloPat, Phylogenetic Patterns
- SplitsTree, program for computing phylogenetic trees and unrooted phylogenetic networks
- Dendroscope, program for drawing phylogenetic trees and rooted phylogenetic networks
- Phylogenetic inferring on the T-REX server
- Mesquite
- NCBI – Systematics and Molecular Phylogenetics
- Sydney Brenner's seminars: "What Genomes Can Tell Us About the Past"
- Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
- Who is Who in Phylogenetic Networks research papers related to the phylogenetic network
- Phylogenetic Reconstruction from Gene-Order Data
- ETE: A Python Environment for Tree Exploration This is a programming library to analyze, manipulate and visualize phylogenetic trees. See: Huerta-Cepas, Jaime; Dopazo, Joaquín; Gabaldón, Toni (2010). "ETE: A python Environment for Tree Exploration". BMC Bioinformatics. 11: 24. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-24. PMC 2820433. PMID 20070885.
- PhylomeDB: A public database hosting thousands of gene phylogenies ranging many different species. See: Huerta-Cepas, J.; Capella-Gutierrez, S.; Pryszcz, L. P.; Denisov, I.; Kormes, D.; Marcet-Houben, M.; Gabaldón, T. (2010). "PhylomeDB v3.0: An expanding repository of genome-wide collections of trees, alignments and phylogeny-based orthology and paralogy predictions". Nucleic Acids Research. 39 (Database issue): D556–60. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq1109. PMC 3013701. PMID 21075798.
- Lents, N. H.; Cifuentes, O. E.; Carpi, A. (2010). "Teaching the Process of Molecular Phylogeny and Systematics: A Multi-Part Inquiry-Based Exercise". Cell Biology Education. 9 (4): 513. doi:10.1187/cbe.09-10-0076.
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