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Area of Science:

  • Comparative genomics
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Bioinformatics

Background:

  • Natural selection estimation is crucial for understanding lineage-specific adaptations.
  • Existing codon substitution models assume time-reversible processes and constant sequence composition.
  • Previous work showed time-reversible DNA models overestimate substitutions with changing composition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To extend findings on time-reversible models to codon substitution models.
  • To develop and validate a nonstationary codon substitution model.
  • To assess the impact of compositional divergence on natural selection estimates.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a nonstationary codon substitution model allowing for changing sequence composition.
  • Compared the new model's performance against time-reversible models using mammalian, vertebrate, and insect datasets.
  • Quantified bias in natural selection and genetic distance estimates under different model assumptions.

Main Results:

  • Time-reversible codon models tend to underestimate the ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous substitution rates.
  • The new nonstationary model demonstrates a better fit to the data.
  • Bias in evolutionary inference increases with the degree of violated stationarity assumption.

Conclusions:

  • Compositional divergence systematically affects inferences made with time-reversible models.
  • The developed nonstationary model provides a more robust estimation of natural selection.
  • Accurate estimation of natural selection is increasingly important with accelerating genomic data accumulation.