The phylogeny of the hominoid primates: a statistical analysis of the DNA-DNA hybridization data |
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Authors: | Templeton AR |
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Institution: | Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130. |
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Abstract: | Sibley and Ahlquist compared the single-copy nuclear DNA sequences of the
hominoid primates using DNA-DNA hybridization. From this data set they
estimated a phylogeny that clusters man and chimpanzees using a distance
Wagner procedure. However, no assessment of statistical confidence in this
estimated phylogeny was made, despite the fact that their data set contains
internal inconsistencies concerning the correct branching order. This paper
presents a modification of Pielou's Q- statistic that allows one to make
nonparametric tests of phylogenetic relationship from distance data. The
results of this analysis indicate that the estimated phylogeny of Sibley
and Ahlquist is without statistical significance owing to the internal
inconsistencies of the data set. A survey and additional analyses of other
types of molecular data indicate that the phylogeny that clusters
chimpanzees and gorillas and has the human lineage splitting off earlier is
statistically consistent with all the molecular data (including the DNA-DNA
hybridization data), whereas the phylogeny estimated by Sibley and Ahlquist
can be rejected at the 5% level using the data on restriction- endonuclease
sites in the mitochondrial genome.
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