Affiliation:
1. Institute of Experimental Pathology, ZMBE, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
2. Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
Abstract
Retrotransposon insertion patterns facilitate a virtually homoplasy-free picture of phylogenetic history. Still, a few most likely random parallel insertions or deletions result in rare cases of homoplasy in primates. The following question arises: how frequent is retrotransposon homoplasy in other phylogenetic clades? Here, we derived genome insertion data of toothed whales to evaluate the extension of homoplasy in a representative laurasiatherian group. Among more than a thousand extracted and aligned retrotransposon loci, we detected 37 cases of precise parallel insertions in species that are separated by over more than 10 million years, a time frame which minimizes the effects of incomplete lineage sorting. We compared the phylogenetic signal of insertions with the flanking sequences of these loci to further exclude potential polymorphic loci derived by incomplete lineage sorting. We found that the phylogenetic signals of retrotransposon insertion patterns exhibiting true homoplasy differ from the signals of their flanking sequences. In toothed whales, precise parallel insertions account for around 0.18–0.29% of insertion cases, which is about 12.5 times the frequency of such insertions among Alus in primates. We also detected five specific deletions of retrotransposons on various lineages of toothed whale evolution, a frequency of 0.003%, which is slightly higher than such occurrences in primates. Overall, the level of retrotransposon homoplasy in toothed whales is still marginal compared to the phylogenetic diagnostic retrotransposon presence/absence signal.
Subject
Genetics (clinical),Genetics
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