Roy Scott William, Gilbert Walter
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Mar 22;102(12):4403-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409891102. Epub 2005 Mar 15.
The relationship between three biologically important groups, arthropods, nematodes, and deuterostomes, remains unresolved. It is unknown whether arthropods are more closely related to nematodes (consistent with the "ecdysozoa" hypothesis) or to deuterostomes (consistent with "coelomata"). We present a method in which we use the pattern of spliceosomal intron conservation to develop a series of inequalities that characterize each possible relationship. We find that only the ecdysozoa grouping satisfies these predictions, with P < 10(-6). Simulations show that our method, unlike some previous methods, is largely insensitive to rate variation between branches.
节肢动物、线虫和后口动物这三个具有重要生物学意义的类群之间的关系仍未明确。目前尚不清楚节肢动物与线虫的关系更为密切(这与“蜕皮动物”假说相符)还是与后口动物关系更为密切(这与“体腔动物”假说相符)。我们提出了一种方法,利用剪接体内含子保守模式来建立一系列不等式,以描述每种可能的关系。我们发现只有蜕皮动物分组满足这些预测,P值小于10的负6次方。模拟结果表明,与之前的一些方法不同,我们的方法在很大程度上不受分支间速率变化的影响。