Project 4294: N. Mongiardino Koch, J. R. Thompson. 2021. A Total-Evidence Dated Phylogeny of Echinoidea Combining Phylogenomic and Paleontological Data. Systematic Biology. 70 (3):421-439.
Specimen: Abatus cordatus (unvouchered)
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Abstract

Phylogenomic and paleontological data constitute complementary resources for unraveling the phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of lineages, yet few studies have attempted to fully integrate them. Several unique properties of echinoids (sea urchins) make them especially useful for such synthesizing approaches, including a remarkable fossil record that can be incorporated into explicit phylogenetic hypotheses. We revisit the phylogeny of crown group Echinoidea using a total-evidence dating approach that combines the largest phylogenomic data set for the clade, a large-scale morphological matrix with a dense fossil sampling, and a novel compendium of tip and node age constraints. To this end, we develop a novel method for subsampling phylogenomic data sets that selects loci with high phylogenetic signal, low systematic biases, and enhanced clock-like behavior. Our results demonstrate that combining different data sources increases topological accuracy and helps resolve conflicts between molecular and morphological data. Notably, we present a new hypothesis for the origin of sand dollars, and restructure the relationships between stem and crown echinoids in a way that implies a long stretch of undiscovered evolutionary history of the crown group in the late Paleozoic. Our efforts help bridge the gap between phylogenomics and phylogenetic paleontology, providing a model example of the benefits of combining the two.


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Article DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa069

Project DOI: 10.7934/P4294, http://dx.doi.org/10.7934/P4294
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    29 June 2022
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    29 June 2022

    Authors' Institutions

    • University College London

    • Yale University



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