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Robust Dinosaur Phylogeny? scientific correspondence term, 1k[B][P(r)], corresponds to an a induced screening charge in a conducting Scelidosaurus medium. For a uniform concentration of Robust dinosaur protease, the long-range 1/r potential is Nodosauridae reduced exponentially: phylogeny? → Gargoyleosaurus f(r)41/r fscr(r)4(1/r)exp(1r/l) and l24D/k[B]. The Ankylosauria comprises two families In simple terms, degradation by the pro- of armoured dinosaurs (Nodosauridae and Ankylosauridae tease limits the size of the pheromone cloud Ankylosauridae) that are best known from , 8 around each a-cell to a radius l the average well-preserved specimens from the Cret- Scelidosaurus distance that a pheromone molecule diffus- aceous period. In their report on the skull b es before being degraded. This screening of a new Jurassic ankylosaur, Gargoyle- Ankylosauridae increases the alignment between the gradi- osaurus, Carpenter et al.1 presented a phy- ent and the direction to the nearest mating logenetic analysis of four terminal taxa, partner, although the gradient strength is which yielded a tree with Gargoyleosaurus Nodosauridae reduced (Fig. 1b,c). Consequently, the pro- as the sister taxon of the Ankylosauridae. tease is not helpful when there is only a sin- But the authors’ claim that their tree is Gargoyleosaurus gle source of pheromone, as was observed robust is undermined when their data and 3 by Segall . Effective screening is obtained their tree are evaluated using numerical c Scelidosaurus when l is of the order of the mean distance techniques. between cells (about 10 mm), which for a Although Carpenter et al.’s preferred Gargoyleosaurus diffusion-limited process indicates a pro- tree (Fig. 1a) is the most parsimonious tree tease concentration of about 1 nM. for their data, the alternatives in which Gar- Nodosauridae For simplicity, we assumed uniform goyleosaurus is the sister taxon of either the protease concentration when deriving the Nodosauridae (Fig. 1b) or Nodosauridae & last equation. However, our results general- Ankylosauridae (Fig. 1c) are only slightly Ankylosauridae ize to non-uniform conditions provided less parsimonious. Of their 26 characters, Figure 1 The three possible trees of ankylosaur rela- that the protease is present over a range cor- just six support their preferred tree, four tionships (rooted on Scelidosaurus with the basal responding to several intercell distances support Gargoyleosaurus & Nodosauridae, polytomy unresolved). a, Tree based on the data of around the a-cell. This is likely to occur, as and two support Nodosauridae and Anky- Carpenter et al.1, which is the most parsimonious protease-secreting a-cells are distributed losauridae. The remaining 14 characters are tree (tree length of 32 steps); b, the next most parsi- throughout the population and the protease phylogenetically uninformative. monious tree (tree length of 34 steps); c, the least 4,8 2 is a stable, widely diffusing molecule . The ‘winning sites’ test shows that the parsimonious tree (tree length of 36 steps). Mechanisms that screen concentration differences between Carpenter et al.’s pre- gradients may be more generally applicable. ferred tree and the slightly less parsimo- one of the six characters used to support Cells of mating type a may have an activity nious alternatives shown in Fig. 1b and c Gargoyleosaurus & Anklyosauridae, is pre- that inactivates a-factor9. Screening may are not significant (P values of 0.75 and sent in several ankylosaurids (for example, also be used in chemotaxis; for example, the 0.29, respectively), so they do not allow us Talarurus, Tarchia and Maleevus)6. Recod- slime mould Dictyostelium secretes factors to identify any tree as being significantly ing this character as polymorphic for the that antagonize the attractants cyclic AMP better supported by the data than any other. aggregate Ankylosauridae reduces the and folate. The effective range of signalling Similarly, bootstrap support for the associa- number of potential synapomorphies for by diffusible growth factors may also be reg- tion of Gargoyleosaurus and the Anky- Gargoyleosaurus & Ankylosauridae to just ulated by a similar mechanism. For exam- losauridae is not compelling (71%, 2,000 five, and highlights the possibility that ple, the growth factor Spitz is inhibited in replicates). Matrix randomization tests also Gargoyleosaurus might nest within the the developing Drosophila eye10. Studies of indicate the limitations of the data. Permu- Ankylosauridae. model systems, such as that discussed here, tation tail probabilities for the data based Carpenter et al.1 noted that strong brain may provide a better understanding of the on parsimony tree length3 and pairwise flexure in Gargoyleosaurus is shared with at quantitative effects of mechanisms that character compatibilities4,5 are 0.51 and least some nodosaurids, but they interpret- control the range of signalling. 0.43, respectively, and do not allow us to ed this similarity as primitive because the Naama Barkai*†, Mark D. Rose†, reject the null hypothesis that congruence ornithopod Hypsilophodon has a similar Ned S. Wingreen‡ within the data is no greater than expected condition. In contrast, comparison with Departments of *Physics and †Molecular Biology, by chance alone. Stegosauria, a more proximate outgroup, Princeton University, Taken together, these results indicate suggests that this similarity is derived with- Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA that Carpenter et al.’s claim that their pre- in Ankylosauria, increasing the evidence for ‡NEC Research Institute, ferred tree is robust is not justified. Their Gargoyleosaurus & Nodosauridae to five 4 Independence Way, conclusions may also be undermined by potential synapomorphies. That these Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA their use of aggregate in-group terminal minor revisions to the character data can e-mail: [email protected] taxa (nodosaurids and ankylosaurids), render the hypotheses represented in Fig. 1a 1. Jackson, C. & Hartwell, L. H. Cell 63, 1039–1051 (1990). which precludes the placement of Gar- and b equally parsimonious underscores 2. Jackson, C. & Hartwell, L. H. Mol. Cell. 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Benton§ differential visual latencies, the observed increase. *School of Biological Sciences, spatial lead of the moving central segment To test this prediction, we measured the University of Bristol, in Fig. 1a is directly proportional to the dif- spatial lead of the moving central segment Bristol BS8 1UG, UK ference between the latencies of the strobed as a function of the detectability of the cen- †Department of Zoology, and the moving central segments. For a tral segment while keeping the detectabilit8y Natural History Museum, given stimulus, the visual latency varies of the strobed segments constant. Here we London SW7 5BD, UK inversely with its luminance5–9, so the use detectability to refer to the number of ‡Department of Earth Sciences, observed spatial lead in the flash–lag para- log units of luminance (Lu) above the University of Cambridge, digm should vary according to the lumi- detection threshold; detectability of the Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK nance of the strobed and moving central strobed segments was 0.3 Lu for subjects §Department of Earth Sciences, segments. Increasing the luminance of the S.S.P. and G.P., and 0.5 Lu for T.L.N. The University of Bristol, moving central segments but not that of the temporal lead of the moving central seg- Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK strobed segments should decrease the delay ment averaged across subjects increases sys- 1. Carpenter, K., Miles, C. & Cloward, K. Nature 393, 782–783 of the moving central segment (dm) while tematically from 20 to 70 ms when its (1998). detectability increases by 1.0 Lu (Fig. 1b). 2. Prager, E. M. & Wilson, A. C. J. Mol. Evol. 27, 326–325 (1988). a Increasing the luminance of the strobed 3. Faith, D. P. & Cranston, P. S. Cladistics 7, 1–28 (1991). segments while keeping that of the moving 4. Alroy, J. Syst. Biol. 43, 430–437 (1994). 5. Wilkinson, M. Biol. Rev. 7, 423–470 (1997). central segment constant should decrease ds, 6. Barrett, P. M., Hailu, Y., Upchurch, P. & Burton, A. C. J. Vert. while dm remains constant. The latency- Paleontol. 18, 376–384 (1998). difference hypothesis predicts that the b 100 observed spatial lead of the moving central g segment should decrease and, if the lumi- ) 80 n i s v nance of the strobed segments is high o m Moving ahead through ( 60 enough, the moving central segment should m t f n be perceived to lag behind spatially.
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