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Phylogenomic Analysis Resolves the Interordinal Relationships and Rapid Diversification of the Laurasiatherian Mammals Syst. Biol. 61(1):150–164, 2012 c The Author(s) 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Society of Systematic Biologists. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syr089 Advance Access publication on September 7, 2011 Phylogenomic Analysis Resolves the Interordinal Relationships and Rapid Diversification of the Laurasiatherian Mammals XUMING ZHOU,SHIXIA XU,JUNXIAO XU,BINGYAO CHEN,KAIYA ZHOU, AND GUANG YANG∗ Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China; ∗Correspondence to be sent to: Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, China; E-mail: [email protected]. Received 28 October 2010; reviews returned 6 April 2011; accepted 23 June 2011 Associate Editor: Michael Charleston Abstract.—Although great progress has been made in resolving the relationships of placental mammals, the position of several clades in Laurasiatheria remain controversial. In this study, we performed a phylogenetic analysis of 97 orthologs (46,152 bp) for 15 taxa, representing all laurasiatherian orders. Additionally, phylogenetic trees of laurasiatherian mammals with draft genome sequences were reconstructed based on 1608 exons (2,175,102 bp). Our reconstructions resolve the in- terordinal relationships within Laurasiatheria and corroborate the clades Scrotifera, Fereuungulata, and Cetartiodactyla. Furthermore, we tested alternative topologies within Laurasiatheria, and among alternatives for the phylogenetic position of Perissodactyla, a sister-group relationship with Cetartiodactyla receives the highest support. Thus, Pegasoferae (Perisso- dactyla + Carnivora + Pholidota + Chiroptera) does not appear to be a natural group. Divergence time estimates from these genes were compared with published estimates for splits within Laurasiatheria. Our estimates were similar to those of sev- eral studies and suggest that the divergences among these orders occurred within just a few million years. [Laurasiatheria; phylogenomics; rapid divergence; placental mammals.] Mammalian phylogeny has recently received extens- Chiroptera have played a central role in discussions ive attention, leading to great progress in this field. of the root and center of origin for Laurasiatheria. Mor- One widely recognized superclade of mammals is phologists (e.g., Butler 1988; MacPhee and Novacek Laurasiatheria, one of several clades first proposed by 1993) originally placed some eulipotyphlans in the order Waddell, Okada, and Hasegawa (1999). Monophyly Lipotyphyla; however, Stanhope et al. (1998) presented of Laurasiatheria has been corroborated by analy- genetic sequence evidence for a polyphyletic origin ses of long concatenations of genetic sequences (e.g., for lipotyphlans and they found one lipotyphlan clade Madsen et al. 2001; Murphy, Eizirik, Johnson, et al. positioned inside Afrotheria, which they named Afroso- 2001; Murphy, Eizirik, O’Brien, et al. 2001; Scally et ricida. The second clade of “lipotyphylans,” which al. 2001; Waddell et al. 2001; Waddell and Shelley positioned deep inside Laurasiatheria, was named Eu- 2003; Hallstrom¨ and Janke 2010) and recently by in- lipotyphyla by Waddell, Okada, and Hasegawa (1999). serted transposable elements that have very low levels However, based primarily on the incorporation of the of homoplasy (Kriegs et al. 2006). High support has complete mitochondrial genome of a mole (Talpa eu- also been found for many subclades of Laurasiatheria, ropaea), Eulipotyphla was subsequently suggested to many of which have traditionally been recognized as be a paraphyletic group as well, with the mole more mammalian orders: Cetartiodactyla (artiodactyls and closely related to Fereuungulata (Waddell, Cao, Hauf, cetaceans), Perissodactyla (rhinoceroses, equids, and and Hasegawa 1999; Cetartiodactyla + Perissodactyla tapirs), Carnivora (carnivores), Chiroptera (megabats + Carnivora + Pholidota) and hedgehogs placed at a + microbats), Pholidota (pangolins), and Eulipotyphla basal position in Eutheria (Mouchaty et al. 2000). How- (hedgehogs, soricid shrews, and moles). Interordinal ever, paraphyly of Eulipotyphla is inconsistent with relationships within this superorder, however, remain several subsequent molecular analyses of concatenated unclear even after extensive molecular analyses. Many sequences of nuclear exons and mitochondrial rRNA laurasiatherian mammals are endowed with a highly genes that placed a monophyletic Eulipotyphla as the specialized anatomy and behavior (e.g., flying, swim- most basal lineage in the Laurasiatheria (Madsen et al. ming, insectivorous, carnivorous, fast-running, etc.), 2001; Matthee et al. 2001; Waddell et al. 2001; Kriegs and it has been hypothesized that many of these biolog- et al. 2006; Nishihara et al. 2006). Additionally, some ical innovations may have evolved in Laurasia (modern molecular studies (Onuma et al. 1998; Mouchaty et al. day North America, Europe, and Asia) together with 2000; Narita et al. 2001; Nikaido et al. 2001) strongly those observed in Supraprimates (Waddell et al. 2001) supported a sister-group relationship between Eulipo- (or Euarchontoglires [Murphy, Eizirik, O’Brien, et al. typhla and Chiroptera named Insectiphillia (Waddell 2001], e.g., primates and rodents). Knowledge of the et al. 2001). Thus, the position of Eulipotyphla, ei- phylogenetic relationships within Laurasiatheria and ther as a basal clade of Laurasiatheria or within In- the elucidation of the position of its root are important sectiphillia, has been a matter of great controversy. for interpreting biogeographic patterns and evolution- Many morphological studies have instead placed Chi- ary processes involved in the early diversification of roptera within the Superorder Archonta (Gregory 1910; placental mammals. Primates + Dermoptera + Scandentia + Chiroptera) Among the orders of Laurasiatheria, hypotheses (Novacek 1992; Shoshani and McKenna 1998); however, for the phylogenetic positions of Eulipotyphla and many molecular analyses have strongly contradicted 150 2012 ZHOU ET AL.—LAURASIATHERIAN PHYLOGENOMICS AND DIVERSIFICATION 151 this clade and placed Chiroptera within Laurasiatheria Tubulidentata (aardvarks), Proboscidea (elephants), (Waddell, Okada, and Hasegawa 1999; Nikaido et al. Sirenia (dugongs and manatees), and Hyracoidea 2000; Madsen et al. 2001; Murphy, Eizirik, O’Brien, (hyraxes). Subsequently, many molecular studies have et al. 2001; Scally et al. 2001; Waddell et al. 2001). The placed Perissodactyla and Cetartiodactyla together perceived phylogenetic position of Chiroptera within within Laurasiatheria as members of the clade Fereuun- Laurasiatheria varies depending on the combination gulata (Pumo et al. 1998; Waddell, Okada, and Hasegawa of genes selected for analysis. For example, based on 1999; Madsen et al. 2001; Murphy, Eizirik, Johnson, et mitochondrial genomes, Pumo et al. (1998) presented al. 2001; Murphy, Eizirik, O’Brien, et al. 2001; Waddell strong evidence that Chiroptera is closely related to et al. 2001). However, relationships within Fereuungu- Fereuungulata. By contrast, several other studies that lata are still unclear, and a cascade of studies over the combined analyses of mitochondrial genomes and last decade has resulted in many alternative topolo- functional genes (Onuma et al. 1998; Mouchaty et al. gies (Fig. 1). Most authors agree with one aspect of 2000; Narita et al. 2001; Nikaido et al. 2001) support the phylogeny of Shoshani and McKenna (1998), which monophyly of Insectiphillia. placed Carnivora and Pholidota in the clade Ferae (e.g., The phylogenetic position of Perissodactyla within Waddell, Okada, and Hasegawa 1999; Murphy, Eizirik, Laurasiatheria has been another controversial issue. Johnson, et al. 2001; Murphy, Eizirik, O’Brien, et al. 2001; Based on morphological data (e.g., Shoshani and Waddell et al. 2001), but all possible hypotheses for the McKenna 1998), Perissodactyla was originally grouped relationships of the remaining clades of Fereuungulata with other hoofed animals in the group Ungulata have received at least some support: Perissodactyla + (McKenna 1975), which also included Cetartiodactyla, Cetartiodactyla (Irwin and Wilson 1993, a close second FIGURE 1. Alternative hypotheses for the interorder relationships of major Laurasiatherian lineages based on molecular sequences data (a–e) and retroposon analysis (f). Clade support values and the size of the data sets used are available in Table 1. 152 SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY VOL. 61 in Waddell, Okada, and Hasegawa [1999] and favored MATERIALS AND METHODS in Murphy, Eizirik, Johnson, et al. [2001] and Wad- Taxonomic Sampling dell et al. [2001]), Perisodactyla and Ferae (Waddell, Okada, and Hasegawa 1999; Murphy, Eizirik, O’Brien, Data set A.—The 97 markers that were assembled for et al. 2001; Kullberg et al. 2006; Waters et al. 2007), and data set A were developed from OrthoMaM, a database even Carnivora + Cetartiodactyla (Prasad et al. 2008, that consists of orthologous genomic markers for pla- although the exact position of Pholidota was not de- cental mammalian phylogenetics (Ranwez et al. 2007). termined). The name Cetungulata was attached to the The details
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