Deep-level diagnostic value of the rDNA-ITS region |
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Authors: | Hershkovitz MA; Lewis LA |
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Institution: | NCBI (Genbank), National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20984, USA. hershkov@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |
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Abstract: | The similarity of certain reported angiosperm rDNA internal transcribed
spacer (ITS) region sequences to those of green algae prompted our analysis
of the deep-level phylogenetic signal in the highly conserved but short
5.8S and hypervariable ITS2 sequences. We found that 5.8S sequences yield
phylogenetic trees similar to but less well supported than those generated
by a ca. 10-fold longer alignment from rDNA-18S sequences, as well as
independent evidence. We attribute this result to our finding that,
compared to 18S, the 5.8S has a higher proportion of sites subject to vary
and greater among-site substitution rate homogeneity. We also determined
that our phylogenetic results are not likely affected by intramolecular
compensatory mutation to maintain RNA secondary structure nor by evident
systematic biases in base composition. Despite historical homology, there
appears to be no ITS2 primary sequence similarity shared sufficient
similarity to cluster correctly on the basis of alignability. Our results
indicate that groups, however, share sufficient similarity to cluster
correctly on the basis of alignability. Our results indicate that ITS
region sequences can diagnose organismal origins and phylogenetic
relationships at many phylogenetic levels and provide a useful paradigm for
molecular evolutionary study.
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