Failure of phylogeny inferred from multilocus sequence typing to represent bacterial phylogeny

Abstract Although multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is highly discriminatory and useful for outbreak investigations and epidemiological surveillance, it has always been controversial whether clustering and phylogeny inferred from the MLST gene loci can represent the real phylogeny of bacterial strai...

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Autores principales: Alan K. L. Tsang, Hwei Huih Lee, Siu-Ming Yiu, Susanna K. P. Lau, Patrick C. Y. Woo
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:1aba6ee04ee84d78bd4d9a6d8d4e7d692021-12-02T15:05:00ZFailure of phylogeny inferred from multilocus sequence typing to represent bacterial phylogeny10.1038/s41598-017-04707-42045-2322https://doaj.org/article/1aba6ee04ee84d78bd4d9a6d8d4e7d692017-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04707-4https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Although multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is highly discriminatory and useful for outbreak investigations and epidemiological surveillance, it has always been controversial whether clustering and phylogeny inferred from the MLST gene loci can represent the real phylogeny of bacterial strains. In this study, we compare the phylogenetic trees constructed using three approaches, (1) concatenated blocks of homologous sequence shared between the bacterial genomes, (2) genome single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) profile and (3) concatenated nucleotide sequences of gene loci in the corresponding MLST schemes, for 10 bacterial species with >30 complete genome sequences available. Major differences in strain clustering at more than one position were observed between the phylogeny inferred using genome/SNP data and MLST for all 10 bacterial species. Shimodaira-Hasegawa test revealed significant difference between the topologies of the genome and MLST trees for nine of the 10 bacterial species, and significant difference between the topologies of the SNP and MLST trees were present for all 10 bacterial species. Matching Clusters and R-F Clusters metrics showed that the distances between the genome/SNP and MLST trees were larger than those between the SNP and genome trees. Phylogeny inferred from MLST failed to represent genome phylogeny with the same bacterial species.Alan K. L. TsangHwei Huih LeeSiu-Ming YiuSusanna K. P. LauPatrick C. Y. WooNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2017)
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Alan K. L. Tsang
Hwei Huih Lee
Siu-Ming Yiu
Susanna K. P. Lau
Patrick C. Y. Woo
Failure of phylogeny inferred from multilocus sequence typing to represent bacterial phylogeny
description Abstract Although multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is highly discriminatory and useful for outbreak investigations and epidemiological surveillance, it has always been controversial whether clustering and phylogeny inferred from the MLST gene loci can represent the real phylogeny of bacterial strains. In this study, we compare the phylogenetic trees constructed using three approaches, (1) concatenated blocks of homologous sequence shared between the bacterial genomes, (2) genome single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) profile and (3) concatenated nucleotide sequences of gene loci in the corresponding MLST schemes, for 10 bacterial species with >30 complete genome sequences available. Major differences in strain clustering at more than one position were observed between the phylogeny inferred using genome/SNP data and MLST for all 10 bacterial species. Shimodaira-Hasegawa test revealed significant difference between the topologies of the genome and MLST trees for nine of the 10 bacterial species, and significant difference between the topologies of the SNP and MLST trees were present for all 10 bacterial species. Matching Clusters and R-F Clusters metrics showed that the distances between the genome/SNP and MLST trees were larger than those between the SNP and genome trees. Phylogeny inferred from MLST failed to represent genome phylogeny with the same bacterial species.
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Hwei Huih Lee
Siu-Ming Yiu
Susanna K. P. Lau
Patrick C. Y. Woo
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title Failure of phylogeny inferred from multilocus sequence typing to represent bacterial phylogeny
title_short Failure of phylogeny inferred from multilocus sequence typing to represent bacterial phylogeny
title_full Failure of phylogeny inferred from multilocus sequence typing to represent bacterial phylogeny
title_fullStr Failure of phylogeny inferred from multilocus sequence typing to represent bacterial phylogeny
title_full_unstemmed Failure of phylogeny inferred from multilocus sequence typing to represent bacterial phylogeny
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