| ACCTRAN | Accelerated Transformation Optimisation |
| APES | School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences |
| BA | Bayesian Analysis |
| BS | Bootstrap Support |
| CAPES | Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brasil |
| CI | Consistency Index |
| HI | Homoplasy Index |
| MCMC | Markov Chain Monte Carlo |
| MP | Maximum Parsimony |
| OTU | Operational Taxonomic Unit |
| PhD | Philosophy Doctor |
| PP | Posterior Probability |
| RC | Rescaled Consistency Index |
| RI | Retention Index |
| TBR | Tree Bisection–Reconnection |
| USP | Universidade de São Paulo |
| WITS | University of the Witwatersrand |