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A heuristic approach of maximum likelihood method for inferring phylogenetic tree and an application to the mammalian SOX-3 origin of the testis-determining gene SRY - PubMed

️Fri Jan 01 1999

A heuristic approach of maximum likelihood method for inferring phylogenetic tree and an application to the mammalian SOX-3 origin of the testis-determining gene SRY

K Katoh et al. FEBS Lett. 1999.

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Abstract

Applying the tree bisection and reconnection (TBR) algorithm, we have developed a heuristic method (maximum likelihood (ML)-TBR) for inferring the ML tree based on tree topology search. For initial trees from which iterative processes start in ML-TBR, two cases were considered: one is 100 neighbor-joining (NJ) trees based on the bootstrap resampling and the other is 100 randomly generated trees. The same ML tree was obtained in both cases. All different iterative processes started from 100 independent initial trees ultimately converged on one optimum tree with the largest log-likelihood value, suggesting that a limited number of initial trees will be quite enough in ML-TBR. This also suggests that the optimum tree corresponds to the global optimum in tree topology space and thus probably coincides with the ML tree inferred by intact ML analysis. This method has been applied to the inference of phylogenetic tree of the SOX family members. The mammalian testis-determining gene SRY is believed to have evolved from SOX-3, a member of the SOX family, based on several lines of evidence, including their sequence similarity, the location of SOX-3 on the X chromosome and some aspects of their expression. This model should be supported directly from the phylogenetic tree of the SOX family, but no evidence has been provided to date. A recently published NJ tree shows implausibly remote origin of SRY, suggesting that a more sophisticated method is required for understanding this problem. The ML tree inferred by the present method showed that the SRYs of marsupial and placental mammals form a monophyletic cluster which had diverged from the mammalian SOX-3 in the early evolution of mammals.

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A heuristic approach of maximum likelihood method for inferring phylogenetic tree and an application to the mammalian SOX-3 origin of the testis-determining gene SRY - PubMed