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ArticlePLoS genetics2021

Phylogenomic assessment of the role of hybridization and introgression in trait evolution.

Yaxuan Wang, Zhen Cao, Huw A Ogilvie, Luay Nakhleh

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  2. Loss, persistence and reversal of phenotypic traits.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026
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  4. Phylogenomic comparative methods: Accurate evolutionary inferences in the presence of gene tree discordance.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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Yaxuan WangDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-3461-1697
Zhen CaoDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
Huw A OgilvieDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-1589-6885
Luay NakhlehDepartment of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-3288-6769

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Abstract

Trait evolution among a set of species-a central theme in evolutionary biology-has long been understood and analyzed with respect to a species tree. However, the field of phylogenomics, which has been propelled by advances in sequencing technologies, has ushered in the era of species/gene tree incongruence and, consequently, a more nuanced understanding of trait evolution. For a trait whose states are incongruent with the branching patterns in the species tree, the same state could have arisen independently in different species (homoplasy) or followed the branching patterns of gene trees, incongruent with the species tree (hemiplasy). Another evolutionary process whose extent and significance are better revealed by phylogenomic studies is gene flow between different species. In this work, we present a phylogenomic method for assessing the role of hybridization and introgression in the evolution of polymorphic or monomorphic binary traits. We apply the method to simulated evolutionary scenarios to demonstrate the interplay between the parameters of the evolutionary history and the role of introgression in a binary trait's evolution (which we call xenoplasy). Very importantly, we demonstrate, including on a biological data set, that inferring a species tree and using it for trait evolution analysis in the presence of gene flow could lead to misleading hypotheses about trait evolution.

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Quantitative Trait LociComputational BiologyEvolution, MolecularGenetic IntrogressionGenetic SpeciationModels, GeneticPhenotypePhylogeny

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PMID34407067
PMCPMC8405015

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