Revisión de los métodos filogenéticos de secuenciasuna crítica a la teoría de Kimura sobre el neutralismo de la evolución molecular
- Meléndez Hevia, Enrique
- Rodríguez Raposo, Raquel
- Meléndez Morales, Ruth
- Cabezas, Héctor
ISSN: 1130-4723
Argitalpen urtea: 1997
Alea: 9
Zenbakia: 2-4
Orrialdeak: 65-86
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias: = Folia Canariensis Academiae Scientiarum
Laburpena
The approaches for phylogenetic studies based on protein and nucleic acid sequence analysis have yielded a remarkable advance in our knowledge of biodiversity in the last 30 years. However its correct use has many problems, so data processing is a hard task. The general hypothesis on which all these methods are based is the so-called neutral theory of molecular evolution, presented by Kimura. In this work we present a review of these methods and of their main problems, and present a criticism to Kimura's theory, based on the results of our research in the last years. A conclusion of this work is that the correct interpretation of molecular phylogeny data demonstrates that arthropods and annelids are artificial groups with no phylogenetic consistency.