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Area of Science:

  • Microbiology
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Bioinformatics

Background:

  • Microbial datasets often contain confounding variation due to common ancestry.
  • Phylogenetic information, representing evolutionary history, is crucial for accurate microbiological analyses.
  • Existing phylogenetic tools for microbiome data lack clear guidance for specific research questions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review and organize phylogeny-aware analytical methods for microbiome datasets.
  • To provide guidance on selecting appropriate methods based on research questions and evolutionary assumptions.
  • To highlight challenges and facilitate biologically informative insights from microbial data.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing phylogenetic comparative methods.
  • Categorization of tools into phylogenetic comparative methods, ancestral state reconstruction, and analysis of phylogenetic variables/distances.
  • Development of a conceptual framework for organizing these analytical tools.

Main Results:

  • Common ancestry can be either a confounding factor or a necessary framework in microbiological analyses.
  • Phylogenetic trees (phylogenies) are essential for analyzing microbial datasets.
  • A conceptual organization of phylogeny-aware tools is presented, aiding method selection.

Conclusions:

  • Choosing the right phylogenetic methods depends on the specific research question and underlying ecological/evolutionary assumptions.
  • Integrating phylogenies into microbiome analysis leads to more accurate and biologically meaningful discoveries.
  • Further development and clear guidance on phylogenetic tools are needed for microbiome research.