Table 3.

The average Robinson and Foulds distance of 100 simulated data sets of 1000 taxa for each tree diameter 0.1, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 and with sequence length 1000 nt (large simulation). Methods are used without BNNI.

number sequences	NJ	BIONJ	HGT/FP	GME	BME	STCk = 5
1000 (0.1)	.146	.146	.378	.168	.143	.139
1000 (0.5)	.093	.089	.193	.126	.075	.066
1000 (1.0)	.094	.090	.188	.132	.074	.062
1000 (1.5)	.097	.091	.182	.138	.073	.061