Comprehensive Multigene Phylogenies of Excavate Protists Reveal the Evolutionary Positions of "Primitive" Eukaryotes Export

@article{citeulike:504021, abstract = {Many of the protists thought to represent the deepest branches on the eukaryotic tree are assigned to a loose assemblage called the "excavates." This includes the mitochondrion-lacking diplomonads and parabasalids (e.g., Giardia and Trichomonas) and the jakobids (e.g., Reclinomonas). We report the first multigene phylogenetic analyses to include a comprehensive sampling of excavate groups (six nuclear-encoded protein-coding genes, nine of the 10 recognized excavate groups). Excavates coalesce into three clades with relatively strong maximum likelihood bootstrap support. Only the phylogenetic position of Malawimonas is uncertain. Diplomonads, parabasalids, and the free-living amitochondriate protist Carpediemonas are closely related to each other. Two other amitochondriate excavates, oxymonads and Trimastix, form the second monophyletic group. The third group is comprised of Euglenozoa (e.g., trypanosomes), Heterolobosea, and jakobids. Unexpectedly, jakobids appear to be specifically related to Heterolobosea. This tree topology calls into question the concept of Discicristata as a supergroup of eukaryotes united by discoidal mitochondrial cristae and makes it implausible that jakobids represent an independent early-diverging eukaryotic lineage. The close jakobids-Heterolobosea-Euglenozoa connection demands complex evolutionary scenarios to explain the transition between the presumed ancestral bacterial-type mitochondrial RNA polymerase found in jakobids and the phage-type protein in other eukaryotic lineages, including Euglenozoa and Heterolobosea. 10.1093/molbev/msj068}, author = {Simpson, Alastair G. B. and Inagaki, Yuji and Roger, Andrew J.}, citeulike-article-id = {504021}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msj068}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/3/615.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/3/615.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/oup/molbev/2006/00000023/00000003/art00615}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16308337}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16308337}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1093/molbev/msj068}, issn = {0737-4038}, journal = {Mol Biol Evol}, keywords = {eukaryote, evolution, phylogenomics, phylogeny, protozoa}, month = {Mar}, number = {3}, pages = {615--625}, posted-at = {2009-10-17 02:24:53}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, title = {Comprehensive Multigene Phylogenies of Excavate Protists Reveal the Evolutionary Positions of "Primitive" Eukaryotes}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msj068}, volume = {23}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:504021 L3 - citeulike-article-id:504021 N2 - Many of the protists thought to represent the deepest branches on the eukaryotic tree are assigned to a loose assemblage called the "excavates." This includes the mitochondrion-lacking diplomonads and parabasalids (e.g., Giardia and Trichomonas) and the jakobids (e.g., Reclinomonas). We report the first multigene phylogenetic analyses to include a comprehensive sampling of excavate groups (six nuclear-encoded protein-coding genes, nine of the 10 recognized excavate groups). Excavates coalesce into three clades with relatively strong maximum likelihood bootstrap support. Only the phylogenetic position of Malawimonas is uncertain. Diplomonads, parabasalids, and the free-living amitochondriate protist Carpediemonas are closely related to each other. Two other amitochondriate excavates, oxymonads and Trimastix, form the second monophyletic group. The third group is comprised of Euglenozoa (e.g., trypanosomes), Heterolobosea, and jakobids. Unexpectedly, jakobids appear to be specifically related to Heterolobosea. This tree topology calls into question the concept of Discicristata as a supergroup of eukaryotes united by discoidal mitochondrial cristae and makes it implausible that jakobids represent an independent early-diverging eukaryotic lineage. The close jakobids-Heterolobosea-Euglenozoa connection demands complex evolutionary scenarios to explain the transition between the presumed ancestral bacterial-type mitochondrial RNA polymerase found in jakobids and the phage-type protein in other eukaryotic lineages, including Euglenozoa and Heterolobosea. 10.1093/molbev/msj068 IS - 3 JF - Mol Biol Evol SN - 0737-4038 EP - 625 TI - Comprehensive Multigene Phylogenies of Excavate Protists Reveal the Evolutionary Positions of "Primitive" Eukaryotes PB - Oxford University Press VL - 23 SP - 615 KW - eukaryote KW - evolution KW - phylogenomics KW - phylogeny KW - protozoa AU - Simpson, Alastair AU - Inagaki, Yuji AU - Roger, Andrew PY - 2006/Mar/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msj068 ER -