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. 2008 May 17;8:151. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-151

Table 2.

Comparison of alternative tree topologies by exhaustive maximum likelihood (ML) analysis

Treea Topologyb ΔlnLc S.E. pAUd pKHd RELLe
1 (Out, (Red, Htrl), (EuSt, (Glauco, Green))); <-27143.41> - 0.867 0.758 0.283
36 (Out, Red, ((Htrl, Green), (EuSt, Glauco))); 30.2 14.4 0.038 0.020 5.00E-06
49 (Out, ((Red, (Htrl, Green)), EuSt), Glauco); 54.7 17.8 0.013 0.003 2.00E-04
54 (Out, ((Red, (Htrl, Green)), Glauco), EuSt); 40.1 19.3 0.011 0.024 3.00E-04
56 (Out, Red, (((Htrl, Green), Glauco), EuSt)); 27.8 15.8 0.009 0.038 4.00E-04
58 (Out, ((Red, Glauco), (Htrl, Green)), EuSt); 41.6 19.4 0.009 0.021 3.00E-06
70 (Out, ((Red, EuSt), (Htrl, Green)), Glauco); 52.8 18.2 0.004 0.005 3.00E-07
71 * (Out, (Red, (Htrl, (EuSt, Green))), Glauco); 48.9 15.5 0.004 0.002 1.00E-05
82 * (Out, (Red, ((Htrl, Green), EuSt)), Glauco); 57.1 17.8 0.001 0.002 3.00E-06
85 (Out, (Red, (EuSt, Glauco)), (Htrl, Green)); 44.1 15.0 0.001 0.004 2.00E-05
86 (Out, (Red, ((Htrl, Green), Glauco)), EuSt); 39.2 19.1 5.00E-04 0.025 6.00E-06
87 * (Out, Red, (((Htrl, EuSt), Green), Glauco)); 29.5 14.8 4.00E-04 0.025 1.00E-06
89 (Out, ((Red, EuSt), Glauco), (Htrl, Green)); 51.3 18.0 2.00E-04 0.005 3.00E-06
91 * (Out, Red, ((Htrl, (EuSt, Green)), Glauco)); 27.9 14.5 1.00E-04 0.028 1.00E-05
93 * (Out, (Red, Glauco), (Htrl, (EuSt, Green))); 50.0 16.3 1.00E-04 0.003 3.00E-06
94 * (Out, (Red, ((Htrl, EuSt), Green)), Glauco); 54.0 18.5 1.00E-04 0.004 1.00E-06
95 (Out, (Red, EuSt), ((Htrl, Green), Glauco)); 44.8 18.5 6.00E-05 0.012 2.00E-06
96 (Out, (Red, (Htrl, Green)), (EuSt, Glauco)); 41.4 15.0 3.00E-05 0.005 5.00E-07
98 * (Out, (Red, Glauco), ((Htrl, EuSt), Green)); 52.5 18.7 2.00E-06 0.006 7.00E-07
101 (Out, ((Red, Glauco), EuSt), (Htrl, Green)); 55.7 18.0 2.00E-40 0.003 2.00E-15
103 * (Out, (Red, Glauco), ((Htrl, Green), EuSt)); 57.0 18.2 2.00E-53 0.003 1.00E-17
104 * (Out, Red, (((Htrl, Green), EuSt), Glauco)); 32.8 15.0 3.00E-56 0.016 8.00E-19

aBest tree (tree 1) and trees supporting the monophyly of green plants + Heterolobosea among all the possible 105 trees retaining six monophyletic groups in Fig. 1.

bGreen, green plants; Htrl, Heterolobosea; Glauco, Glaucophyta; EuSt, Euglenida and Stramenopiles; Red, red algae; Out, eukaryotic ancestral clade and cyanobacteria. Intra-group topologies of six groups are fixed as shown in Fig. 1.

cDifference in the log-likelihood value of alternative tree versus the 'best' tree.

dProbability values of the approximately unbiased (AU) and Kishino-Hasegawa (KH) tests.

eBootstrap support value of resampling estimated log-likelihood with 10,000 replicates.

Asterisks indicate the topologies supporting the monophyly of Green + Htrl + EuSt.