Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) played an important role in shaping microbial genomes. In addition to genes under sporadic selection, HGT also affects housekeeping genes and those involved in information processing, even ribosomal RNA...
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) played an important role in shaping microbial genomes. In addition to genes under sporadic selection, HGT also affects housekeeping genes and those involved in information processing, even ribosomal RNA encoding genes. Here we describe tools that provide an assessment and graphic illustration of the mosaic nature of microbial genomes.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We adapted the Maximum Likelihood (ML) mapping to the analyses of all detected quartets of orthologous genes found in four genomes. We have automated the assembly and analyses of these quartets of orthologs given the selection of four genomes. We compared the ML-mapping approach to more rigorous Bayesian probability and Bootstrap mapping techniques. The latter two approaches appear to be more conservative than the ML-mapping approach, but qualitatively all three approaches give equivalent results. All three tools were tested on mitochondrial genomes, which presumably were inherited as a single linkage group.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>In some instances of interphylum relationships we find nearly equal numbers of quartets strongly supporting the three possible topologies. In contrast, our analyses of genome quartets containing the cyanobacterium <it>Synechocystis</it> sp. indicate that a large part of the cyanobacterial genome is related to that of low GC Gram positives. Other groups that had been suggested as sister groups to the cyanobacteria contain many fewer genes that group with the <it>Synechocystis</it> orthologs. Interdomain comparisons of genome quartets containing the archaeon <it>Halobacterium</it> sp. revealed that <it>Halobacterium</it> sp. shares more genes with Bacteria that live in the same environment than with Bacteria that are more closely related based on rRNA phylogeny . Many of these genes encode proteins involved in substrate transport and metabolism and in information storage and processing. The performed analyses demonstrate that relationships among prokaryotes cannot be accurately depicted by or inferred from the tree-like evolution of a core of rarely transferred genes; rather prokaryotic genomes are mosaics in which different parts have different evolutionary histories. Probability mapping is a valuable tool to explore the mosaic nature of genomes.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-980fbd7b705e493ea5bd264c13c8d1de2022-12-21T21:03:28ZengBMCBMC Genomics1471-21642002-02-0131410.1186/1471-2164-3-4Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: exploring new tools for comparative genome analysesGogarten J PeterZhaxybayeva Olga<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) played an important role in shaping microbial genomes. In addition to genes under sporadic selection, HGT also affects housekeeping genes and those involved in information processing, even ribosomal RNA encoding genes. Here we describe tools that provide an assessment and graphic illustration of the mosaic nature of microbial genomes.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We adapted the Maximum Likelihood (ML) mapping to the analyses of all detected quartets of orthologous genes found in four genomes. We have automated the assembly and analyses of these quartets of orthologs given the selection of four genomes. We compared the ML-mapping approach to more rigorous Bayesian probability and Bootstrap mapping techniques. The latter two approaches appear to be more conservative than the ML-mapping approach, but qualitatively all three approaches give equivalent results. All three tools were tested on mitochondrial genomes, which presumably were inherited as a single linkage group.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>In some instances of interphylum relationships we find nearly equal numbers of quartets strongly supporting the three possible topologies. In contrast, our analyses of genome quartets containing the cyanobacterium <it>Synechocystis</it> sp. indicate that a large part of the cyanobacterial genome is related to that of low GC Gram positives. Other groups that had been suggested as sister groups to the cyanobacteria contain many fewer genes that group with the <it>Synechocystis</it> orthologs. Interdomain comparisons of genome quartets containing the archaeon <it>Halobacterium</it> sp. revealed that <it>Halobacterium</it> sp. shares more genes with Bacteria that live in the same environment than with Bacteria that are more closely related based on rRNA phylogeny . Many of these genes encode proteins involved in substrate transport and metabolism and in information storage and processing. The performed analyses demonstrate that relationships among prokaryotes cannot be accurately depicted by or inferred from the tree-like evolution of a core of rarely transferred genes; rather prokaryotic genomes are mosaics in which different parts have different evolutionary histories. Probability mapping is a valuable tool to explore the mosaic nature of genomes.</p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/3/4 |
| spellingShingle | Gogarten J Peter Zhaxybayeva Olga Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses BMC Genomics |
| title | Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses |
| title_full | Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses |
| title_fullStr | Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses |
| title_short | Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses |
| title_sort | bootstrap bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses |
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