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Rodrigues-Oliveira IH, Pasa R, Menegidio FB, Kavalco KF. Characterization of six new complete mitochondrial genomes of Chiasmodontidae (Scombriformes, Percomorpha) and considerations about the phylogenetic relationships of the family. Genomics Inform 2023; 21:e10. [PMID: 37037468 PMCID: PMC10085734 DOI: 10.5808/gi.22041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Accepted: 01/14/2023] [Indexed: 04/03/2023] Open
Abstract
The fishes of the Chiasmodontidae family, known as swallower fishes, are species adapted to live in deep seas. Several studies have shown the proximity of this family to Tetragonuridae and Amarsipidae. However, the phylogenetic position of this clade related to other Pelagiaria groups remains uncertain even when phylogenomic studies are employed. Since the low number of published mitogenomes, our study aimed to assemble six new mitochondrial genomes of Chiasmodontidae from database libraries to expand the discussion regarding the phylogeny of this group within Scombriformes. As expected, the composition and organization of mitogenomes were stable among the analyzed species, although we detected repetitive sequences in the D-loop of species of the genus Kali not seen in Chiasmodon, Dysalotus, and Pseudoscopelus. Our phylogeny incorporating 51 mitogenomes from several families of Scombriformes, including nine chiasmodontids, recovered interfamilial relationships well established in previous studies, including a clade containing Chiasmodontidae, Amarsipidae, and Tetragonuridae. However, phylogenetic relationships between larger clades remain unclear, with disagreements between different phylogenomic studies. We argue that such inconsistencies are not only due to biases and limitations in the data but mainly to complex biological events in the adaptive irradiation of Scombriformes after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.
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- Igor Henrique Rodrigues-Oliveira
- Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 31270-901, Brazil
- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics, Federal University of Viçosa, Rio Paranaíba 38810-000, Brazil
- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Federal University of Viçosa, Rio Paranaíba 38810-000, Brazil
- Corresponding author: E-mail:
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- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics, Federal University of Viçosa, Rio Paranaíba 38810-000, Brazil
- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Federal University of Viçosa, Rio Paranaíba 38810-000, Brazil
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- Technological Research Center, University of Mogi das Cruzes, Mogi das Cruzes 08780-911, Brazil
- Integrated Biotechnology Center, University of Mogi das Cruzes, Mogi das Cruzes 08780-911, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics, Federal University of Viçosa, Rio Paranaíba 38810-000, Brazil
- Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Federal University of Viçosa, Rio Paranaíba 38810-000, Brazil
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Pastana MNL, Johnson GD, Datovo A. Comprehensive phenotypic phylogenetic analysis supports the monophyly of stromateiform fishes (Teleostei: Percomorphacea). Zool J Linn Soc 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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More than half the ray-finned fishes and about one-quarter of all living vertebrates belong to Percomorphacea. Among its 30 orders, Stromateiformes encompass 77 species in 16 genera and six families. Stromateiform monophyly has never been tested using morphology, and it has been rejected by molecular analyses. This comprehensive revision of Stromateiformes includes all its valid genera of all percomorph families previously aligned with the order. We sampled 207 phenotypic characters in 66 terminal taxa representing 14 orders and 46 acanthopterygian families. This dataset significantly surpasses all previous phenotype-based phylogenies of Stromateiformes, which analysed only a fraction of these characters. Stromateiformes is recovered as monophyletic, supported by eight unequivocal synapomorphies. Amarsipidae is the sister group of all other Stromateiformes (= Stromateoidei). Centrolophidae is paraphyletic, with three of its genera allocated into an early-diverging clade and the other four appearing as successive sister groups to a lineage containing the remaining stromateiforms. All other stromateoid families are monophyletic, with the following cladistic arrangement: (Nomeidae (Stromateidae (Tetragonuridae, Ariommatidae))). Our analysis convincingly refutes recent molecular phylogenetic interpretations that fail to recover a monophyletic Stromateiformes. These findings call into question large-scale conclusions of percomorph relationships and trait evolution based solely on molecular data.
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- Murilo N L Pastana
- Division of Fishes, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
- Laboratório de Ictiologia, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Division of Fishes, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Laboratório de Ictiologia, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Harrington RC, Friedman M, Miya M, Near TJ, Campbell MA. Phylogenomic resolution of the monotypic and enigmatic
Amarsipus
, the Bagless Glassfish (Teleostei, Amarsipidae). ZOOL SCR 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Museum of Paleontology and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Michigan Ann Arbor MIUSA
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- Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba Chiba Japan
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Yale University New Haven CTUSA
- Peabody Museum Yale University New Haven CTUSA
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Arcila D, Hughes LC, Meléndez-Vazquez F, Baldwin CC, White W, Carpenter K, Williams JT, Santos MD, Pogonoski J, Miya M, Ortí G, Betancur-R R. Testing the utility of alternative metrics of branch support to address the ancient evolutionary radiation of tunas, stromateoids, and allies (Teleostei: Pelagiaria). Syst Biol 2021; 70:1123-1144. [PMID: 33783539 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syab018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The use of high-throughput sequencing technologies to produce genome-scale datasets was expected to settle some long-standing controversies across the Tree of Life, particularly in areas where short branches occur at deep timescales. Instead, these datasets have often yielded many well-supported but conflicting topologies, and highly variable gene-tree distributions. A variety of branch-support metrics beyond the nonparametric bootstrap are now available to assess how robust a phylogenetic hypothesis may be, as well as new methods to quantify gene-tree discordance. We applied multiple branch support metrics to an ancient group of marine fishes (Teleostei: Pelagiaria) whose interfamilial relationships have proven difficult to resolve due to a rapid accumulation of lineages very early in its history. We analyzed hundreds of loci including published UCE data and newly generated exonic data along with their flanking regions to represent all 16 extant families for more than 150 out of 284 valid species in the group. Branch support was lower for interfamilial relationships (except the SH-like aLRT and aBayes methods) regardless of the type of marker used. Several nodes that were highly supported with bootstrap had very low site and gene-tree concordance, revealing underlying conflict. Despite this conflict, we were able to identify four consistent interfamilial clades, each comprised of two or three families. Combining exons with their flanking regions also produced increased branch lengths in the deep branches of the pelagiarian tree. Our results demonstrate the limitations of employing current metrics of branch support and species-tree estimation when assessing the confidence of ancient evolutionary radiations and emphasize the necessity to embrace alternative measurements to explore phylogenetic uncertainty and discordance in phylogenomic datasets.
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- Dahiana Arcila
- Department of Ichthyology, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.,Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A.,Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, U.S.A.,Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A
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- Department of Ichthyology, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.,Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A
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- CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection, National Research Collections Australia, Hobart, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A
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- CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection, National Research Collections Australia, Hobart, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, Aoba-cho, Chuo-ku, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A.,Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A
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Campbell MA, Buser TJ, Alfaro ME, López JA. Addressing incomplete lineage sorting and paralogy in the inference of uncertain salmonid phylogenetic relationships. PeerJ 2020; 8:e9389. [PMID: 32685284 PMCID: PMC7337038 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Recent and continued progress in the scale and sophistication of phylogenetic research has yielded substantial advances in knowledge of the tree of life; however, segments of that tree remain unresolved and continue to produce contradicting or unstable results. These poorly resolved relationships may be the product of methodological shortcomings or of an evolutionary history that did not generate the signal traits needed for its eventual reconstruction. Relationships within the euteleost fish family Salmonidae have proven challenging to resolve in molecular phylogenetics studies in part due to ancestral autopolyploidy contributing to conflicting gene trees. We examine a sequence capture dataset from salmonids and use alternative strategies to accommodate the effects of gene tree conflict based on aspects of salmonid genome history and the multispecies coalescent. We investigate in detail three uncertain relationships: (1) subfamily branching, (2) monophyly of Coregonus and (3) placement of Parahucho. Coregoninae and Thymallinae are resolved as sister taxa, although conflicting topologies are found across analytical strategies. We find inconsistent and generally low support for the monophyly of Coregonus, including in results of analyses with the most extensive dataset and complex model. The most consistent placement of Parahucho is as sister lineage of Salmo.
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- Matthew A. Campbell
- University of Alaska Museum, University of Alaska—Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of Alaska Museum, University of Alaska—Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
- College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska—Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
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Friedman M, Feilich KL, Beckett HT, Alfaro ME, Faircloth BC, Černý D, Miya M, Near TJ, Harrington RC. A phylogenomic framework for pelagiarian fishes (Acanthomorpha: Percomorpha) highlights mosaic radiation in the open ocean. Proc Biol Sci 2019; 286:20191502. [PMID: 31506051 PMCID: PMC6742994 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2019] [Accepted: 08/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
The fish clade Pelagiaria, which includes tunas as its most famous members, evolved remarkable morphological and ecological variety in a setting not generally considered conducive to diversification: the open ocean. Relationships within Pelagiaria have proven elusive due to short internodes subtending major lineages suggestive of rapid early divergences. Using a novel sequence dataset of over 1000 ultraconserved DNA elements (UCEs) for 94 of the 286 species of Pelagiaria (more than 70% of genera), we provide a time-calibrated phylogeny for this widely distributed clade. Some inferred relationships have clear precedents (e.g. the monophyly of 'core' Stromateoidei, and a clade comprising 'Gempylidae' and Trichiuridae), but others are unexpected despite strong support (e.g. Chiasmodontidae + Tetragonurus). Relaxed molecular clock analysis using node-based fossil calibrations estimates a latest Cretaceous origin for Pelagiaria, with crown-group families restricted to the Cenozoic. Estimated mean speciation rates decline from the origin of the group in the latest Cretaceous, although credible intervals for root and tip rates are broad and overlap in most cases, and there is higher-than-expected partitioning of body shape diversity (measured as fineness ratio) between clades concentrated during the Palaeocene-Eocene. By contrast, more direct measures of ecology show either no substantial deviation from a null model of diversification (diet) or patterns consistent with evolutionary constraint or high rates of recent change (depth habitat). Collectively, these results indicate a mosaic model of diversification. Pelagiarians show high morphological disparity and modest species richness compared to better-studied fish radiations in contrasting environments. However, this pattern is also apparent in other clades in open-ocean or deep-sea habitats, and suggests that comparative study of such groups might provide a more inclusive model of the evolution of diversity in fishes.
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- Matt Friedman
- Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, Aoba-cho, Chuo-ku, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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