title: Mitogenome phylogenetics: the impact of using single regions and partitioning schemes on topology, substitution rate and divergence time estimation.
abstract: The availability of mitochondrial genome sequences is growing as a result of recent technological advances in molecular biology. In phylogenetic analyses, the complete mitogenome is increasingly becoming the marker of choice, usually providing better phylogenetic resolution and precision relative to traditional markers such as cytochrome b (CYTB) and the control region (CR). In some cases, the differences in phylogenetic estimates between mitogenomic and single-gene markers have yielded incongruent conclusions. By comparing phylogenetic estimates made from different genes, we identified the most informative mitochondrial regions and evaluated the minimum amount of data necessary to reproduce the same results as the mitogenome. We compared results among individual genes and the mitogenome for recently published complete mitogenome datasets of selected delphinids (Delphinidae) and killer whales (genus Orcinus). Using Bayesian phylogenetic methods, we investigated differences in estimation of topologies, divergence dates, and clock-like behavior among genes for both datasets. Although the most informative regions were not the same for each taxonomic group (COX1, CYTB, ND3 and ATP6 for Orcinus, and ND1, COX1 and ND4 for Delphinidae), in both cases they were equivalent to less than a quarter of the complete mitogenome. This suggests that gene information content can vary among groups, but can be adequately represented by a portion of the complete sequence. Although our results indicate that complete mitogenomes provide the highest phylogenetic resolution and most precise date estimates, a minimum amount of data can be selected using our approach when the complete sequence is unavailable. Studies based on single genes can benefit from the addition of a few more mitochondrial markers, producing topologies and date estimates similar to those obtained using the entire mitogenome.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular de Vertebrados Acuáticos, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
authors.forename: Sebastián
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Duchêne
authors.forename: Frederick I
authors.initials: FI
authors.lastname: Archer
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vilstrup
authors.forename: Susana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Caballero
authors.forename: Phillip A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Morin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002591:Cetacea / Q000235:genetics; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D004289:Dolphins / Q000235:genetics; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D010802:Phylogeny; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial
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