Table 1. Summary of tree statistics and major phylogenetic findings in the simultaneous analyses of ribosomal data of Chrysomelidae using parsimony (Direct Optimization, DO) and maximum likelihood (ML) tree reconstructions.
| DO | BLAST (ML) | |
| Tree statistics | ||
| Aligned sites | 4579 | 3304 |
| Variable sitesa | 2648 (484) | 1357 (409) |
| Informative sitesa | 1279 (331) | 921 (266) |
| parsimony tree length | 10105 | [10467]b |
| likelihood score | [45699.7872]c | 35041.1587 |
| CI | 0.332 | [0.158]b |
| RI | 0.607 | [0.484]b |
| Phylogenetic conclusions d | ||
| Chrysomelidae | M (sister to Orsodacnidae) | M (sister to Cerambycidae) |
| ‘sagrines’ (Don+Cri+Bru) | M | M (incl. Syn) |
| ‘chrysomelines’+‘eumolpines’ | M | M |
| ‘eumolpines’ (Spi+Eum+Cry+Cas) | M (incl. Syn) | M |
| Cassidinae s.l./s.str.e | M/M | M/Po |
| ‘chrysomelines’ (Tim+Chr+Gal) | M | M |
| Tim+Chr | Pa | Pa |
| monocot feeding Chrysomelidae | Po | Po |
a
Excluding gapped sites in brackets.
b
Optimized under parsimony in PAUP*, for comparative purposes only.
c
Optimized with PAUP* implementing the GTR+I+G model, for comparative purposes only.
d
M: monophyletic; Pa: paraphyletic; Po: polyphyletic.
e
The Cassidinae s.l. includes hispines (paraphyletic in our analyses) and cassidines.
Subfamily abbreviations: Don-Donaciinae, Cri-Criocerinae, Bru-Bruchinae, Syn-Synetinae, Spi-Spilopyrinae, Eum-Eumolpinae, Cry-Cryptocephalinae, Cas-Cassidinae, Tim-Timarchinae, Chr-Chrysomelinae, Gal-Galerucinae.