Bijux Rabies Host and Geography Workflow

Complete end-to-end review for one real rabies nucleoprotein panel. The workflow starts from raw sequences plus combined host and geography metadata, validates the FASTA surface, aligns and trims the panel, infers a bootstrap-supported maximum-likelihood tree, roots that tree on one explicit outgroup, summarizes bootstrap topology uncertainty, extracts clades, reconstructs host and geographic histories, and fits one comparative model over a derived geographic trait.

sequences9
selected modelTPM2u+F+G4
aligned quality90.48
trimmed quality90.48
root hostbat
root regionnorth_asia

Scientific Question

Do the host-associated rabies lineages in this compact panel occupy one distinct geographic regime while retaining one coherent phylogenetic signal?

Working answer: `host_group[canid]` shows a positive association and is nominally supported. The comparative layer selects brownian as the better continuous-trait surface, but the residual diagnostics remain cautionary and the panel is intentionally small.

Sequence-to-Tree Outputs

  • input validation: input-validation.tsv
  • alignment quality: alignment-quality.tsv
  • alignment sequence ranking: alignment-sequence-ranking.tsv
  • alignment: rabies-cross-host-geography-panel.aln
  • trimmed alignment: rabies-cross-host-geography-panel.trimmed.aln
  • rooted tree: rabies-cross-host-geography-panel.rooted.tree
  • support table: rabies-cross-host-geography-panel.support.tsv
  • workflow summary: workflow-summary.tsv
  • resource observations: resource-observations.tsv
nodedescendant_taxasupportsupport_fraction
cattle_russia_4092_13_2025|cattle_russia_4092_15_2025|dog_pakistan_pdb011|raccoon_dog_poland_2021|raccoon_dog_russia_4092_26_2025|red_fox_russia_4092_18_2025|red_fox_russia_4092_20_2025cattle_russia_4092_13_2025, cattle_russia_4092_15_2025, dog_pakistan_pdb011, raccoon_dog_poland_2021, raccoon_dog_russia_4092_26_2025, red_fox_russia_4092_18_2025, red_fox_russia_4092_20_20251001
cattle_russia_4092_13_2025|cattle_russia_4092_15_2025|raccoon_dog_poland_2021|raccoon_dog_russia_4092_26_2025|red_fox_russia_4092_18_2025|red_fox_russia_4092_20_2025cattle_russia_4092_13_2025, cattle_russia_4092_15_2025, raccoon_dog_poland_2021, raccoon_dog_russia_4092_26_2025, red_fox_russia_4092_18_2025, red_fox_russia_4092_20_20251001
cattle_russia_4092_13_2025|cattle_russia_4092_15_2025|raccoon_dog_russia_4092_26_2025|red_fox_russia_4092_18_2025|red_fox_russia_4092_20_2025cattle_russia_4092_13_2025, cattle_russia_4092_15_2025, raccoon_dog_russia_4092_26_2025, red_fox_russia_4092_18_2025, red_fox_russia_4092_20_2025990.99
raccoon_dog_russia_4092_26_2025|red_fox_russia_4092_18_2025|red_fox_russia_4092_20_2025raccoon_dog_russia_4092_26_2025, red_fox_russia_4092_18_2025, red_fox_russia_4092_20_2025920.92
raccoon_dog_russia_4092_26_2025|red_fox_russia_4092_20_2025raccoon_dog_russia_4092_26_2025, red_fox_russia_4092_20_2025840.84
cattle_russia_4092_13_2025|cattle_russia_4092_15_2025cattle_russia_4092_13_2025, cattle_russia_4092_15_20251001

Bootstrap and Clade Review

  • bootstrap tree count: 1000
  • rooted topology count: 19
  • unstable branch count: 4
  • clade row count: 17
  • see bootstrap-review/ for consensus, clade frequencies, instability, distances, topology clusters, and rooted-tree comparison
tree_countrooted_topology_countdominant_topology_frequencyeffective_topology_countunstable_branch_count
1000190.7962.474658903454

Host Switching

  • workflow trait: host_group
  • root host confidence: 1
  • host-switch rows: 2
  • see host-switch-summary.tsv, host-state-nodes.tsv, host-switch-branches.tsv, and host-switch-counts.tsv
transitioncertain_switch_countuncertain_switch_counttotal_switch_count
bat->canid011
canid->livestock011

Comparative Layer

  • formula: region_longitude ~ host_group
  • selected trait model: brownian
  • PGLS lambda: 1
  • PGLS r-squared: 0.833944827574
  • see comparative/ for coefficients, model comparison, diagnostics, signal summary, and interpretation tables
topicclaimevidence
formulacomparative regression was fit as `region_longitude ~ host_group`analysis_taxa=9; predictors=1
phylogenetic-signalthe response trait retains high phylogenetic structureblombergs_k=2.441010; pagels_lambda=1.000000
model-comparisonbrownian is the preferred continuous trait model on AICcaicc_delta=4.934486; selected_from=2 models
coefficient`host_group[canid]` shows a positive association and is nominally supportedestimate=144.746259; p_value=0.033808; 95%_ci=[15.407057, 274.085460]
coefficient`host_group[livestock]` shows a positive association and is nominally supportedestimate=154.578389; p_value=0.031665; 95%_ci=[18.907086, 290.249693]

Biogeography

The bundle includes the detailed biogeography package at biogeography/biogeography-report.html together with the ancestral-region tree SVG and the self-contained geographic map.

Ancestral-Region Tree

Ancestral region tree

Geographic Map

branch_idsource_regiontarget_regionsupportmidpoint_depth
bat_chile_rv108north_asiasouth_america0.4411764688130
bat_chile_rv50north_asianorth_america0.5446428561740.0730227384
dog_pakistan_pdb011north_asiasouth_asia0.6080288209940.23829727355
raccoon_dog_poland_2021north_asiaeurope0.6469840114740.27017854725

Scientific Findings Ledger

finding_idquestionclaimevidencecautionsource_artifact
root_host_stateWhat host state anchors the rooted rabies panel?The rooted tree places the ancestral host state in bat.root host confidence 1 with outgroup bat_chile_rv108The panel is compact and grouped by broad host classes rather than species-level host states.rabies-cross-host-geography-panel.rooting.tsv
root_region_stateWhat geographic regime anchors the rooted rabies panel?The rooted tree places the ancestral region in north_asia.root region probability 0.555555553778 across 4 changed branchesGrouped macroregions simplify the raw locality labels so the result should be treated as regional rather than site-level history.biogeography/summary.tsv
host_switchingHow much host-switching signal appears in the rooted tree?The host reconstruction inferred 2 host-switch branch changes.certain changes 0; uncertain changes 2Branch-wise host changes depend on the grouped host coding and should not be over-read as one exhaustive host-jump catalogue.host-switch-summary.tsv
bootstrap_consensusDoes the bootstrap consensus preserve the rooted ML conclusion?The bootstrap consensus differs from the rooted ML topology after support-driven summarization.rooted RF distance 1; high-support conflicts 0Consensus trees can collapse low-support branches, so exact rooted agreement is stricter than shared major clades.bootstrap-review/rooted-tree-vs-bootstrap-consensus.summary.tsv
comparative_longitudeDo host-associated rabies lineages occupy one distinct longitudinal regime in this panel?`host_group[canid]` shows a positive association and is nominally supportedselected model brownian; PGLS lambda 1; r-squared 0.833944827574The comparative claim is associational, uses only nine taxa, and retains residual-diagnostic cautions.comparative/interpretation-table.tsv
migration_eventsHow much regional movement is implied by the geographic reconstruction?The biogeography layer inferred 4 migration events across the rooted tree.strongly supported migration events 0Event counts summarize transitions over grouped regions and do not replace one dated dispersal analysis.biogeography/event-table.tsv

Key Files