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Modeling compositional heterogeneity.

Peter G Foster1

  • 1Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom. p.foster@nhm.ac.uk

Systematic Biology
|October 27, 2004
PubMed
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Phylogenetic analysis models often assume homogeneous data, but this study introduces models accommodating compositional heterogeneity. Properly modeling this heterogeneity improves phylogenetic accuracy, leading to correct tree inference.

Area of Science:

  • Computational Biology
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Bioinformatics

Background:

  • Phylogenetic analyses commonly employ models that assume compositional homogeneity across lineages.
  • This assumption can be violated, leading to inaccurate phylogenetic reconstructions.
  • Compositional heterogeneity, where data composition varies between evolutionary lineages, is a known issue.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe and utilize models that can accommodate compositional heterogeneity in phylogenetic analyses.
  • To demonstrate that adequate modeling of compositional heterogeneity can be achieved with few parameters.
  • To assess model fit and phylogenetic accuracy when compositional heterogeneity is accounted for.

Main Methods:

  • Development and application of models that incorporate compositional heterogeneity with minimal extra parameters.

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  • Utilized Bayesian framework with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) for tree searching and composition vector placement.
  • Employed likelihood ratio tests, Goldman-Cox test, tree-and model-based composition fit tests, and posterior predictive simulation for model assessment.

    • Main Results:

    • Adequate modeling of compositional heterogeneity is achievable with a limited number of composition parameters.
    • Separate composition parameters for each branch are not always necessary.
    • When compositional heterogeneity is not accommodated, phylogenetic models do not fit the data, and incorrect trees are inferred.

    Conclusions:

    • Models accommodating compositional heterogeneity provide adequate fit to phylogenetic data.
    • Accounting for compositional heterogeneity is crucial for obtaining accurate phylogenetic trees.
    • The developed methods successfully recover known correct phylogenies when compositional variation is modeled.