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. 2007 Feb 21;1:11–36.

Phylogenetic biodiversity assessment based on systematic nomenclature

Ross H Crozier 1,, Lisa J Dunnett 2, Paul-Michael Agapow 3
PMCID: PMC2658867  PMID: 19325850

Abstract

Biodiversity assessment demands objective measures, because ultimately conservation decisions must prioritize the use of limited resources for preserving taxa. The most general framework for the objective assessment of conservation worth are those that assess evolutionary distinctiveness, e.g. Genetic (Crozier 1992) and Phylogenetic Diversity (Faith 1992), and Evolutionary History (Nee & May 1997). These measures all attempt to assess the conservation worth of any scheme based on how much of the encompassing phylogeny of organisms is preserved. However, their general applicability is limited by the small proportion of taxa that have been reliably placed in a phylogeny. Given that phylogenizaton of many interesting taxa or important is unlikely to occur soon, we present a framework for using taxonomy as a reasonable surrogate for phylogeny. Combining this framework with exhaustive searches for combinations of sites containing maximal diversity, we provide a proof-of-concept for assessing conservation schemes for systematized but un-phylogenised taxa spread over a series of sites. This is illustrated with data from four studies, on North Queensland flightless insects (Yeates et al. 2002), ants from a Florida Transect (Lubertazzi & Tschinkel 2003), New England bog ants (Gotelli & Ellison 2002) and a simulated distribution of the known New Zealand Lepidosauria (Daugherty et al. 1994). The results support this approach, indicating that species, genus and site numbers predict evolutionary history, to a degree depending on the size of the data set.

Keywords: Evolutionary history, phylogenetic diversity, genetic diversity, biodiversity, phylogeny, systematic nomenclature

Introduction

There is an instinctive and natural desire to preserve all species across the world, but in reality this “Noah’s Ark” approach (Mann & Plummer 1995) is impractical. Resources - financial and otherwise - are limited, the scale of the problem too vast (Agapow et al. 2004), and blanket protection policies are unlikely to be politically successful. Conservation is necessarily a question of economics and prioritization. How can time and money be spent most efficiently? Which species and populations should be targeted for preservation? What metrics can be used for measuring a species importance?

Given the variety of organisms, sites and environments under consideration, it is initially unclear what quality should be measured by any metric of “conservation worth”. Many taxa have qualities that demand their preservation (e.g., being sources of valuable products or other economic benefits, scientific importance, or cultural value), but for the great majority their values are not so clear and are difficult to compare. Even when taxa are clearly “valuable”, questions of priority will arise, because the preservation of one taxon may conflict with that of another. Political success for any conservation scheme is more likely if the proposal is backed by objective measurable data.

Objective criteria for the selection of sites and populations necessary to preserve single species chosen for conservation are relatively well developed (Frankham et al. 2002). But authoritative estimates of the number of species in the world are around 10 million (May 1992, Magurran 2005), so that it is clear that broad-scale solutions are needed rather than dealing with one species at a time.

Ecologists typically regard species richness, the number of species in sites being considered for preservation, as the currency of conservation (Justus & Sarkar 2002, Gaston & Spicer 2004). The consideration of species numbers alone may, however, be insufficient, because of such factors as general imperfect taxonomic knowledge and variation in the level of this knowledge from one group to another. For some time therefore it has been suggested that the phylogenetic distinctiveness of species be taken into account (reviewed by Crozier (1997) and by Mace et al. (2003)), a point of view elegantly encapsulated by Wilson (1992) when he defined biodiversity as the information content in the world’s genomes. The sense of this view is illustrated by the east African great lakes. Some of these are home to more than 1,000 species of cichlid fishes which appear to have evolved over a very short evolutionary time (Meyer 1993). Naively relying on species number alone would value this group more than the ungulates, primates and carnivores combined. Using an approach that weights species by their evolutionary distinctiveness returns the cichlids to a value that intuitively seems more correct and undistorted by “cheap” species.

Early applications of phylogeny to conservation relied purely on topology (reviewed by Crozier (1997)), but the much greater information content in branch-length metrics (recall the cichlid example above) led to their more widespread use and development (Crozier 1992, Faith 1992). Two dimensions can be discerned. One distinction is between measures that consider only the tree connecting the species of interest, as against measures that include the root of the tree connecting the species studied to the rest of life. The other considers the lengths of evolutionary branches (e.g., number of substitutions), as against taking account of saturation of differences (e.g., number of positions with different nucleotides). For example, as two DNA sequences diverge following speciation or gene duplication, differences will accumulate as substitutions occur. With time, substitutions will tend to occur at the same positions as earlier ones, so that the rate of divergence slows even though the rate of evolution does not, a distinction well brought out by the phrase of DeSalle et al. (1987) that eventually Hawaiian Drosophila cease to diverge even while continuing to evolve rapidly. Naturally, saturation occurs for more than DNA sequences–birds and fruit flies continue to evolve, but few would think that they are still becoming more different from each other. “Phylogenetic diversity” (PD) measures retained diversity as the length of tree retained between the group of interest without taking saturation into account (Faith 1992):

PD=k=12n-3dk, (1)

where n is the number of species and dk, is the length of branch k in the tree.

“Genetic diversity” (GD) resembles PD but takes saturation into account (Crozier 1992). Specifically, GD estimates the probability that the set of taxa preserves more than one allele per site:

GD=1-k=12n-3(1-pk) (2)

where pk is the proportion of sites different in state at the two ends of branch, hence 0 ≤ pk ≤ 1. For molecular data, dk is derived from pk according to one or other of the models of sequence evolution.

“Evolutionary history” (EH) is similar to PD but includes the connection of the subtree to the rest of life (Nee & May 1997), by always including the node at the root. For symmetry we define a measure “Genetic history” (GH) which uses (2) above but always includes the root node in calculations, thus resembling EH. PD and GD thus deal with unrooted trees whereas EH and GD require rooted ones. Evolutionary history is attractive compared to PD because the analysis then preserves the context within the rest of life, and is appropriate for this study because of the non-molecular nature of the data.

It has been a truism that conservation of habitats, with thousands or more species each, is preferable to concentrating on conserving particular species, necessarily small in number. The phylogenetic approach goes further, and asks about the evolutionary distinctiveness of species to be conserved. Phylogenetic methods involving whole communities have been applied to aquatic eukaryotic microbes using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of total extracted environmental DNA (van Hannen et al. 1998) and to subterranean bacteria via 16S rDNA sequences (Crozier et al. 1999).

There is, however, a major impediment to a more general application of phylogenetic methods to conservation, and that is that the vast majority of groups lack complete phylogenies and this situation is unlikely to be corrected in the near future. A workaround for this problem already exists but has yet to be applied to conservation biology problems.

Systematists generally try to make the arrangement of species into taxa mirror the topology of an inferred evolutionary tree, and the various classificatory levels similarly reflect the systematist’s judgement as to the degree of difference. Thus, surrogate phylogenies can be inferred from systematic nomenclature, and these phylogenies applied in biodiversity assessment. We here illustrate this method and, using species by site (location) data from four other studies, demonstrate its application using multi-platform computer programs.

Estimates of confidence in biodiversity estimates are desirable when they can be made (Crozier 1997). Where surveys are not claimed to yield complete data, the survey data could be used to estimate statistical sufficiency, such as by using bootstrap or jackknife methods to derive confidence limits for EH, PD, GD or GH, and sample coverage methods (Chao & Lee 1992, Chao 2004) to obtain confidence limits for species richness. The entities used for such estimates will differ between groups. For example for social insects the correct unit is closer to the number of colonies (Wilson 1963, Pamilo & Crozier 1997, Chapman & Bourke 2001) because these better approximate the number of reproductives than does the number of sterile or infertile workers. In turn, the number of colonies of a species is approximated by the number of pitfall traps with its workers, rather than the absolute number of workers. Such measures are available in one of the programs discussed here, MeSA, and we discuss their use below.

Methods

Systematic nomenclature is used to infer a phylogeny of the species under consideration. A branch of equal length is allowed for each level in the hierarchy. An example is shown for a selection of social bees with the systematic nomenclature shown in Table 1, yielding the phylogeny of Figure 1.

Table 1.

Systematic nomenclature for some social bees (Michener 2000).

Subfamily Tribe Genus Species
Apinae Apini Apis mellifera
dorsata
Meliponini Melipona beecheii
Trigona hypogea

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Phylogeny of some social bees inferred from the systematic nomenclature shown in Table 1.

The program TreeMaker allows the conversion of systematic nomenclature into an inferred phylogeny (or the importing of an actual phylogeny, if known) and the recording of the presence of the various species across collection sites, either as presence or absence or as abundance data. Branch lengths can either be one for each change of systematic level, or the distance from the root of the tree to the tips can be divided equally. Biodiversity for different combinations of sites is then determined by the species and resultant phylogeny that would be preserved if the sites are retained, according to whichever metric (e.g. PD, GD, GH or EH) is used. The absolute value of the preserved biodiversity varies with the metric used, but the ranks of combinations of sites are the same (Krajewski 1994) and there is for any particular data set (e.g., that of Crozier et al. (1999)) a simple interconversion between PD and GD unique to that data set. The absolute values can be important in intuitive evaluations - for example EH will tend to indicate that more biodiversity is preserved than does PD for the same data.

We have used EH in our calculations here. For the set of bees, a set with Apis mellifera and A. dorsata preserved will have an EH of 4 and one which also preserves Melipona beechei one of 7 (the PD values of these sets are 2 and 7).

The biodiversity preserved by conserving a set of sites is the EH of the species preserved. The program MeSA allows an exhaustive search of combinations of sites, calculating the species richness and EH (and other measures if desired, such as various estimates of species diversity and complementarity) of each combination. Confidence limits for species richness are asymmetric ones obtained via sample coverage methods. For example the estimator Chao84 (Chao 1984) uses information on the abundance of species which are rare but present to estimate the number of species which are rare but absent. Confidence limits for the diversity measure used in an analysis (e.g., EH) are obtained by standard jackknife and bootstrap methods, namely by subsampling from the observations seen in a combination and determining EH for each subsample (see Sokal and Rohlf (1995) for a review). Our implementation of jack-knifing followed standard practice, with each observation being omitted in turn to create a sub-sample.

The algorithm for converting systematic nomenclature into an inferred phylogeny is implemented in two freely available programs, both called TreeMaker. The first is a Java program storing its data in an SQL database, and is available from http://homes.jcu.edu.au/~jc125033/Treemaker.htm. The second, available in Windows and Macintosh versions, stores its data in a structured format in files and is available from http://www.agapow.net/software/treemaker. MeSA is available from http://www.agapow.net/software/mesa.

We used four data sets to explore the properties of our approach. The first of these example data sets contains information on the presence or absence of 273 species of flightless insects in 86 genera from 14 North Queensland localities resulting from a long-running Queensland Museum study directed by G. E. Monteith (Yeates et al. 2002). The tree inferred from systematics is given in the Appendix as a NEXUS file readable by TREEVIEW X. The second data set comes from a transect surveying the occurrences of northern Florida ants in a longleaf pine habitat, involving 72 species in 24 genera from 12 sites (Lubertazzi & Tschinkel 2003). The third data set stems from a study of New England bog ants (Gotelli & Ellison 2002) using an updated data set recording abundances of 34 species at 22 localities. The fourth data set was inspired by the discovery of a second species of the genus Sphenodon, which as the sister group to all other lepidosaurs is highly isolated phylogenetically (Daugherty et al. 1990, May 1990). Sphenodon is now largely limited to sites lacking introduced rats, with the rate of loss dependent on the particular invasive rat species (C. E. Daugherty, pers. comm.), rendering problematic any examination of the impact of Sphenodon on the conservation worth of sites. We therefore used the list of New Zealand lepidosaurs (Sphenodon and lizards) given by Daugherty et al. (1994), comprising 62 species placed in five genera, and simulated a set of 15 sites. Each species occurs three times and these occurrences were distributed at random to the 15 sites. The phylogenetic trees and occurrences at sites for the four data sets are given in NEXUS files in the Appendix.

For each dataset, all possible combinations of included sites were generated. From the resultant ensemble of sites the genera, species and EH preserved were calculated. These analyses were performed by MeSA. Including the set of all sites, there are 16,383 combinations for the North Queensland Flightless Insects (NQFI) data, 4,095 for the Florida ants (FLA) data, 4,194,303 for the New England bog ants (NEBA) data and 32,767 for the New Zealand Lepidosauria (NZL) data. All the NQFI and FLA data can be meaningfully graphed, but it was necessary to sample from the NEBA and NZL results to yield a more tractable number of points, chosen to be 20,000.

In order to investigate the effects on EH of phylogenetically divergent species, for each data set we distinguished between site combination-shaving remarkably divergent taxa and those without. The impact of a species on EH is expected to reflect the length of the branch connecting it to the rest of the tree (Crozier 1992, Faith 1992). For the NQFI data we selected Austrovelia queenslandica (abbreviated Austrovelia AV01 in the NEXUS file), the sole member of the Mesoveliidae in this data set, for FLA we selected Myrmecina americana, sole representative of its tribe, for the NEBA data we selected Amblyopone pallipes, sole member of its subfamily in this ant data set, and for NZL we selected the genus Sphenodon.

To illustrate the use of confidence limit calculations, we used the Chao84 estimator for the number of species and its confidence limit, and for estimating the confidence limits for EH we estimated its standard error (SE) using the jackknife and derived confidence limits as 1.96 × SE. We used the NEBA data set for this demonstration; but we caution that that although the data are of the right form for the calculation they represent capture records of individual ants, not colonies as we have argued above would be more appropriate. Regression analyses were made using Statview 4.5 (Abacus Concepts).

Results

Graphs of species number and preserved evolutionary history (figure 2) show a strong relationship between these quantities. In every case there is a strong tendency for site combinations with the divergent taxa selected to preserve more evolutionary history than combinations with the same number of species but lacking these divergent taxa.

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Relationships between species richness, generic richness, number of sites and evolutionary history preserved, and between the number of genera and number of species preserved, for the data sets of the flightless insects of North Queensland (A–D), Florida ants (E–H), New England bog ants (I–L) and New Zealand lepidosaurs (M–P). Where applicable, combinations of sites preserving a selected phylogenetically divergent taxon are given in red and others in black; the rare taxa are Austrovelia queenslandica (A–C), Myrmecina americana (E–G), Amblyopone pallipes (I–K) and the genus Sphenodon (M–O).

The number of genera is predictive of evolutionary history preserved (figure 2) but with the effect most marked when the number of genera is large (as in the NQFI data set). The relationship between evolutionary history preserved and the number of sites is often not a close one, but there is an evident significant payoff to selecting sites with the selected divergent taxa (figure 2). The advantage to selecting sites with these divergent taxa is marked for all data sets except FLA.

The relationship between number of species and number of genera varies between data sets, apparently in proportion to the range of numbers of genera preserved by different site combinations (figure 2). There is a very strong relationship for NQFI (a range of 10 to 86 genera preserved) and the weakest relationship is seen for the NZL data (three to five genera preserved).

Statistical analyses are problematic because each site enters into many site combinations, but regression analyses can be at least indicative. For each data set all three independent variables (number of sites, number of genera, number of species) were highly significant under multiple regression (Table 2) and all were retained in the model under stepwise regression (Table 3). For the stepwise regression, the order of entry of terms into the model was number of species > number of genera > number of sites for all data sets except NZL (with a very small number of genera), in which the order was number of species > number of sites > number of genera.

Table 2.

ANOVA table for the four data sets, for the independent variables shown and the dependent variable Evolutionary History. The data sets are North Queensland Flightless Insects (NQFI), Florida Ants (FLA), New England Bog Ants (NEBA), and New Zealand Lepidosaurs (NZL). In each case the regression was significant with P < 0.0001. The regression in each case had 3 degrees of freedom and the total number of degrees of freedom is given after each dataset abbreviation.

Data/parameter Coefficient Standard Error Standard Coefficient t-value P
NQFI (16382)
Intercept 3.097 0.032 3.097 95.657 <0.0001
Number of Sites −0.026 0.002 −0.008 −16.876 <0.0001
Number of Genera 0.163 0.001 0.209 197.165 <0.0001
Number of Species 0.125 <0.001 0.802 689.038 <0.0001
FLA (4094)
Intercept 2.600 0.029 2.600 90.273 <0.0001
Number of Sites 0.011 0.001 0.014 8.241 <0.0001
Number of Genera 0.310 0.002 0.319 135.947 <0.0001
Number of Species 0.190 0.001 0.698 251.929 <0.0001
NEBA (17464)
Intercept 2.417 0.021 2.427 115.492 <0.0001
Number of Sites 0.005 0.001 0.011 5.806 <0.0001
Number of Genera 0.333 0.003 0.272 119.329 <0.0001
Number of Species 0.252 0.001 0.758 296.172 <0.0001
NZL (19729)
Intercept −7.551 1.779 −7.551 −4.243 <0.0001
Number of Sites 0.115 0.007 0.185 16.224 <0.0001
Number of Genera 2.931 0.357 0.049 8.216 <0.0001
Number of Species 0.066 0.002 0.366 32.096 <0.0001

Table 3.

Final ANOVA tables after all three independent variables (Number of Sites, Number of Genera and Number of Species) were entered into the stepwise regression analysis. In all cases the regressions were significant with P < 0.0001. The degrees of freedom were as given in Table 2. The adjusted R2 value for each regression is given in parentheses after each dataset abbreviation.

Data/parameter Coefficient Standard Error Std. Coefficient F-to-Remove
NQFI (0.999)
Intercept 3.097 0.032 3.097 9150.323
Number of Sites −0.026 0.002 −0.008 284.800
Number of Genera 0.163 0.001 0.209 38874.218
Number of Species 0.125 <0.001 0.802 474773.447
FLA (0.994)
Intercept 2.600 0.029 2.600 8149.174
Number of Sites 0.011 0.001 0.014 67.909
Number of Genera 0.310 0.002 0.319 18481.488
Number of Species 0.190 0.001 0.698 63468.304
NEBA (0.956)
Intercept 2.427 0.021 2.427 13338.354
Number of Sites 0.005 0.001 0.011 33.710
Number of Genera 0.333 0.003 0.272 14239.333
Number of Species 0.252 0.001 0.758 87717.638
NZL (0.288)
Intercept −7.551 1.779 −7.551 18.007
Number of Sites 0.115 0.007 0.185 263.220
Number of Genera 2.931 0.357 0.049 67.494
Number of Species 0.006 0.002 0.366 1030.168

Because giving all results for the confidence limits for EH and species richness for all sites of an would make for a voluminous table, we present the results of all combinations of dropping one site at a time for the NEBA data, in Table 4.

Table 4.

Confidence intervals for species richness calculated using the Chao84 estimator and for EH using the jackknife. The 22 combinations obtained by dropping each site in turn from Goltelli’s NEBA data are shown. For the data, see the Appendix.

Site Omitted n S EH
ARC 34 37.961<46.000<70.349 13.419<15.000<16.581
BH 34 41.538<54.000<87.063 12.865<15.000<17.135
CB 33 34.597<39.000<55.548 13.250<14.750<16.250
CKB 33 46.566<57.000<75.458 13.177<14.500<15.823
HAW 34 37.962<46.000<70.349 13.419<15.000<16.581
HBC 33 36.962<45.000<69.349 13.169<14.750<16.331
OB 34 37.962<46.000<70.349 13.419<15.000<16.581
PK 34 37.961<46.000<70.349 13.419<15.000<16.581
QP 34 37.962<46.000<70.349 13.419<15.000<16.581
RP 33 40.538<53.000<86.063 13.092<14.750<16.408
SKP 33 34.597<39.000<55.548 13.276<14.500<15.724
SW 34 35.991<44.000<84.238 13.342<15.000<16.658
TPB 34 37.962<46.000<70.349 13.419<15.000<16.581
WIN 34 37.962<46.000<70.349 13.419<15.000<16.581
SPR 34 37.962<46.000<70.349 13.419<15.000<16.581
SNA 34 37.962<46.000<70.349 13.419<15.000<16.581
PEA 34 37.962<46.000<70.349 13.419<15.000<16.581
CHI 34 37.962<46.000<70.349 13.419<15.000<16.581
MOL 34 37.962<46.000<70.349 13.419<15.000<16.581
COL 33 36.962<45.000<69.349 13.169<14.750<16.331
CAR 34 37.962<46.000<70.349 13.419<15.000<16.581

Terms: n is the observed species richness, S the estimated value and its 95% confidence limits and EH is Evolutionary History and its 95% confidence limits.

Discussion

We have demonstrated a method of using phylogenetic information implicit in systematic nomenclature to assess the conservation worth of sets of reserves using large proportions of their species, in fact potentially all of them. The method is not divorced from direct phylogenetic knowledge because systematists generally seek to make systematic nomenclature reflect this knowledge, and as it advances will modify the nomenclature. The information already being collected from surveys can be readily entered into the programs TREEMAKER and MeSA, and the results for moderate numbers of reserved (as in the NQFI case) readily sorted using popular spreadsheet programs such as EXCEL, enabling the most bio-diverse sets to be easily identified. The number of possible combinations does rise steeply with increasing number of locations, so that obtaining and listing all of these becomes prohibitive in computer time and effort, whether for identifying just species richness or EH. Simulated annealing has been proposed for identifying sets of locations maximising species richness (McDonnell et al. 2002) and this approach can also be used for maximising EH (Agapow & Crozier 2005).

The estimates of statistical sufficiency in Table 4 are not strictly correct for these data, as discussed above, but the results bring out an important point. For some sites 34 species were recorded and others 33, but the 22 combinations formed by dropping one site each time yielded results which did not differ significantly: all the various combinations are not significantly different with respect either to the number of species preserved or the EH. The management implication is that the criteria for choosing between those combinations which do not differ significantly can rest on other grounds than species richness or EH.

The identification of species is commonly a laborious and difficult process, so that it is natural that short cuts have been sought that avoid this task. One such short cut is “higher taxon richness”, in which higher taxa (such as genera or even families) are counted rather than species. Because higher taxa are more easily identified than species, this method is naturally attractive (reviewed by Crozier (1997)). In a study of subterranean bacterial communities related through an rRNA phylogeny, Crozier et al. (1999) found that higher taxon richness correlated well with GD. The present results indicate that the number of genera is highly predictive of EH (as gauged using systematic nomenclature) for large data sets. For small to medium sized data sets the predictiveness of EH drops off markedly as the range of number of genera preserved by site combinations decreases. For large data sets, such as NQFI, genus number is highly predictive of species number, a result suggesting that for such studies there could be a saving of effort through identifying specimens to genus only.

Phylogenies or surrogates based on systematic nomenclature have been used in or recommended for ecological studies on community structure (Warwick & Clarke 1994, 1998, Clarke & Warwick 2001, Webb et al. 2002, Cattin et al. 2004, Gotelli 2004), and estimated functional divergence has been used instead of phylogeny in examining community structure (Petchey & Gaston 2002, Petchey et al. 2004). There seems therefore to be a widespread move towards going beyond species richness in biodiversity assessment and similar endeavors, as also shown by the use of unit-length morphological phylogenies (Faith et al. 2004).

The methods suggested here have limitations. Groups in which there is minimal systematic structure, perhaps because they have radiated recently and not yet evolved high degrees of divergence, will have a poor reflection of phylogeny in their nomenclature. There are grounds for optimism, in that a study of the effects of phylogenetic inaccuracy on comparative analysis (Symonds 2002) found that the process is fairly robust against such errors. More serious, given the ambition to cover a significant proportion of the species in habitats (Humphries et al. 1995), is the lack of consistency across broad taxonomic groups, such as insects and mammals. If a consistent standard could be applied for systematics across at least the metazoa, such as a correspondence between systematic rank and time since origin (Avise & Johns 1999), then a broad array of animal groups could be included in such analyses. However, as it is, use of the NQFI data set shows that most terrestrial species could be included in analyses.

The argument in favor of a phylogenetic basis for setting conservation priorities was put persuasively by Wilson (1992) and implemented in various metrics by others (reviewed by Crozier (1997)). However the idea that the object of conservation is to preserve the widest diversity of features in the biota shows that a phylogenetic rationale has long been implicit. But even if the underlying rationale for biodiversity preservation is phylogenetic, need the methods for achieving it be? If large numbers of species are involved, does a phylogenetic approach to assessment still matter (Humphries et al. 1995, Crozier 1997)? Our results indicate that phylogeny (gauged through its surrogate of systematic nomenclature) will make the most difference when the number of species is small. However, given that it is much more difficult and labor-intensive to collect the data than to analyse them, it would seem negligent not to investigate the effects of phylogeny now that there are adequate tools for doing so.

Acknowledgements

We thank Alan N. Andersen, Jon D. Majer, David Lubertazzi, Charles Daugherty, Raghavendra Gadagkar, Nick J. Gotelli and Phil S. Ward for discussions and data, and Nick J. Gotelli, Brian E. Heterick, David Lubertazzi, Geoff E. Monteith, Helge Schlüns, Matt R. E. Symonds, Phil S Ward, Brian Heterick, Alan N. Andersen, David K. Yeates and two anonymous reviewers for comments on drafts of the manuscript. Part of this work was included in a James Cook University honours thesis by LJD. RHC’s work on social insect evolution is supported by grants from the Australian Research Council.

Appendix

NEXUS files for the analyses used in this paper. The trees involved can be readily viewed using TREE-VIEW X if the DATA block is removed or commented out.

#NEXUS

[! Created by TreeMakerB v1.0.8d 9/7/04]

[Data from Yeates, Bouchard & Monteith, 2002, who also give]

[the complete names for each species used]

[The systematic levels used were superorder, order, suborder, infraorder, superfamily, family, genus, and species]

BEGIN DATA;

DIMENSIONS NTAX=273 NCHAR=14;

FORMAT DATATYPE=CONTINUOUS;

CHARSTATELABELS

1 site_FU,
2 site_TU,
3 site_WU,
4 site_CU,
5 site_BM,
6 site_LU,
7 site_AU,
8 site_BK,
9 site_MT,
10 site_KU,
11 site_LE,
12 site_SU,
13 site_HU,
14 site_EU
;

MATRIX

TargaremineA_LY08 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D083 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Myerslopella_ML06 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tryonicus_BL02 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Notuchus_DE02 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
PeloridiidA_PE02 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hackeriella_PE01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Schizopteromiris_MI01 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Grosshygia_GR03 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mesophloeobia_A078 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Austrovelia_AV01 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kumaressa_A001 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aellocoris_A026 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Euricoris_A027 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
Glyptoaptera_A030 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Drakiessa_A066 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
GenusE_A041 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GenusH_A043 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chelonoderus_A070 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
Aegisocoris_A072 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Drakiessa_A088 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Grosshygioides_GR04 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tomocoris_LY01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Australotarma_LY03 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Targarops_LY06 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP37 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Darodilia_C069 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TargaremineC_LY10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Mystropomus_C001 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0
Pamborus_C005 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Migadopine_C006 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Laccopterum_C007 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Mecyclothorax_C010 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Raphetis_C011 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sitaphe_C012 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Coptocarpus_C016 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Illaphanus_C017 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Castelnaudia_C021 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Feronista_C022 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiradira_C031 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Loxogenius_C032 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Notonomus_C043 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nurus_C044 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Setalis_C046 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lecanomerus_C057 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Harpaline_C060 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Anomotarus_C063 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Loxandrus_C065 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Lacordairia_C067 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chariotheca_CM53 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Terradessus_DY02 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athemistus_AT03 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1
Blepegenes_AD01 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Cardiothorax_AD02 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bluops_AD03 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Adelium_AD14 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Seirotrana_AD15 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
Adelium_AD18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Adelodemus_AD19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bellendenum_AD22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Monteithium_AD24 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nolicima_AD25 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Licinoma_AD26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Dicyrtodes_AD29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Epomidus_AD33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Diaspirus_AD34 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Coripera_AD42 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dicyrtodes_AD49 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Caxtonana_CM08 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM11 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM16 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hydissus_CM17 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Mychestes_MY05 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Lissapterus_LU02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Amphistomus_D005 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aulacopris_D007 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aptenocanthon_D012 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Temnoplectron_D065 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Tryonicus_BL01 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Myerslopella_ML01 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Myerslopella_ML02 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Myerslopella_ML03 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Myerslopella_ML04 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Myerslopella_ML05 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Notuchus_DE01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aellocoris_A019 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aellocoris_A020 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aellocoris_A021 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
Aellocoris_A022 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aellocoris_A023 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aellocoris_A024 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aellocoris_A025 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Glyptoaptera_A028 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Glyptoaptera_A029 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Spinandra_A031 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
Spinandra_A032 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spinandra_A033 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Spinandra_A034 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
GenusA_A037 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
GenusB_A038 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
GenusA_A035 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
GenusA_A036 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
GenusE_A039 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
GenusE_A040 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Drakiessa_A064 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Drakiessa_A065 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Chelonoderus_A067 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Chelonoderus_A068 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chelonoderus_A069 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aegisocoris_A071 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Neophloeobia_A073 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Neophloeobia_A074 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Neophloeobia_A075 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Mesophloeobia_A077 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Granulaptera_A079 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Granulaptera_A080 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Granulaptera_A081 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
Granulaptera_A082 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Granulaptera_A083 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Granulaptera_A084 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Grosshygia_GR01 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Grosshygia_GR02 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
TargaremineA_LY07 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Pamborus_C003 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0
Pamborus_C004 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mecyclothorax_C008 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mecyclothorax_C009 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Coptocarpus_C015 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Castelnaudia_C018 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Castelnaudia_C019 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Castelnaudia_C020 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Leiradira_C023 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiradira_C024 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiradira_C025 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiradira_C026 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiradira_C027 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Leiradira_C028 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiradira_C029 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiradira_C030 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Notonomus_C033 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Notonomus_C034 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0
Notonomus_C035 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Notonomus_C036 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Notonomus_C037 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Notonomus_C038 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Notonomus_C039 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Notonomus_C040 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Notonomus_C041 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Notonomus_C042 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trichosternus_C047 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trichosternus_C048 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trichosternus_C049 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Trichosternus_C050 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trichosternus_C051 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trichosternus_C052 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Trichosternus_C053 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trichosternus_C055 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Trichosternus_C056 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Harpaline_C058 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Harpaline_C059 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Anomotarus_C061 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Carenum_C068 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP07 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP15 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP16 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP19 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP20 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Philipis_CP27 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP32 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP33 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP34 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Philipis_CP36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Terradessus_DY01 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athemistus_AT01 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Athemistus_AT02 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Adelium_AD04 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
Adelium_AD06 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Adelium_AD07 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Adelium_AD08 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
Adelium_AD09 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Adelium_AD11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Adelium_AD12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Adelium_AD13 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Coripera_AD16 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Adelium_AD17 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Bellendenum_AD20 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bellendenum_AD21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Monteithium_AD23 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dicyrtodes_AD28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Epomidus_AD30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Diaspirus_AD31 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leptogastrus_AD35 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leptogastrus_AD36 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Coripera_AD40 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Coripera_AD41 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apocryphodes_AD43 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Leptogastrus_AD44 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Adelium_AD45 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bellendenum_AD47 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Caxtonana_CM01 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Caxtonana_CM02 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Caxtonana_CM03 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Caxtonana_CM04 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Caxtonana_CM05 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Caxtonana_CM06 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Caxtonana_CM07 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM09 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM10 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cuemus_CM12 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cuemus_CM13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Caxtonana_CM14 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Caxtonana_CM15 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Omolipus_CM18 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Caxtonana_CM21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM23 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM24 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM25 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM26 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM27 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0
Apterotheca_CM29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Apterotheca_CM30 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM32 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM33 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM35a 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM35b 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM35c 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM37 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM38 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM39 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM40 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Caxtonana_CM41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM42 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Omolipus_CM43 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apterotheca_CM50 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mychestes_MY01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Mychestes_MY03 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lissapterus_LU01 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Amphistomus_D004 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Aptenocanthon_D008 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aptenocanthon_D009 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Aptenocanthon_D010 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Aptenocanthon_D011 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Temnoplectron_D019 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lepanus_D088 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Temnoplectron_D097 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Temnoplectron_D138 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D139 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D140 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D141 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D142 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D143 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D144 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D145 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D146 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D147 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D148 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D149 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D151 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D152 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D153 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D155 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Pseudignambia_D156 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
;

END;

BEGIN TREES;

TRANSLATE

203 TargaremineA_LY08,
388 Pseudignambia_D083,
138 Myerslopella_ML06,
132 Tryonicus_BL02,
140 Notuchus_DE02,
143 PeloridiidA_PE02,
142 Hackeriella_PE01,
141 Schizopteromiris_MI01,
197 Grosshygia_GR03,
187 Mesophloeobia_A078,
144 Austrovelia_AV01,
145 Kumaressa_A001,
153 Aellocoris_A026,
154 Euricoris_A027,
157 Glyptoaptera_A030,
174 Drakiessa_A066,
171 GenusE_A041,
175 GenusH_A043,
179 Chelonoderus_A070,
181 Aegisocoris_A072,
194 Drakiessa_A088,
198 Grosshygioides_GR04,
199 Tomocoris_LY01,
200 Australotarma_LY03,
201 Targarops_LY06,
284 Philipis_CP37,
267 Darodilia_C069,
204 TargaremineC_LY10,
205 Mystropomus_C001,
208 Pamborus_C005,
209 Migadopine_C006,
210 Laccopterum_C007,
213 Mecyclothorax_C010,
214 Raphetis_C011,
215 Sitaphe_C012,
217 Coptocarpus_C016,
218 Illaphanus_C017,
222 Castelnaudia_C021,
223 Feronista_C022,
232 Leiradira_C031,
233 Loxogenius_C032,
244 Notonomus_C043,
245 Nurus_C044,
246 Setalis_C046,
257 Lecanomerus_C057,
260 Harpaline_C060,
262 Anomotarus_C063,
263 Loxandrus_C065,
264 Lacordairia_C067,
372 Chariotheca_CM53,
286 Terradessus_DY02,
289 Athemistus_AT03,
290 Blepegenes_AD01,
291 Cardiothorax_AD02,
292 Bluops_AD03,
301 Adelium_AD14,
302 Seirotrana_AD15,
305 Adelium_AD18,
306 Adelodemus_AD19,
309 Bellendenum_AD22,
311 Monteithium_AD24,
312 Nolicima_AD25,
313 Licinoma_AD26,
315 Dicyrtodes_AD29,
317 Epomidus_AD33,
319 Diaspirus_AD34,
324 Coripera_AD42,
329 Dicyrtodes_AD49,
337 Caxtonana_CM08,
340 Apterotheca_CM11,
345 Apterotheca_CM16,
346 Hydissus_CM17,
371 Apterotheca_CM51,
375 Mychestes_MY05,
377 Lissapterus_LU02,
379 Amphistomus_D005,
380 Aulacopris_D007,
385 Aptenocanthon_D012,
387 Temnoplectron_D065,
131 Tryonicus_BL01,
133 Myerslopella_ML01,
134 Myerslopella_ML02,
135 Myerslopella_ML03,
136 Myerslopella_ML04,
137 Myerslopella_ML05,
139 Notuchus_DE01,
146 Aellocoris_A019,
147 Aellocoris_A020,
148 Aellocoris_A021,
149 Aellocoris_A022,
150 Aellocoris_A023,
151 Aellocoris_A024,
152 Aellocoris_A025,
155 Glyptoaptera_A028,
156 Glyptoaptera_A029,
158 Spinandra_A031,
159 Spinandra_A032,
160 Spinandra_A033,
161 Spinandra_A034,
167 GenusA_A037,
168 GenusB_A038,
165 GenusA_A035,
166 GenusA_A036,
169 GenusE_A039,
170 GenusE_A040,
172 Drakiessa_A064,
173 Drakiessa_A065,
176 Chelonoderus_A067,
177 Chelonoderus_A068,
178 Chelonoderus_A069,
180 Aegisocoris_A071,
182 Neophloeobia_A073,
183 Neophloeobia_A074,
184 Neophloeobia_A075,
186 Mesophloeobia_A077,
188 Granulaptera_A079,
189 Granulaptera_A080,
190 Granulaptera_A081,
191 Granulaptera_A082,
192 Granulaptera_A083,
193 Granulaptera_A084,
195 Grosshygia_GR01,
196 Grosshygia_GR02,
202 TargaremineA_LY07,
206 Pamborus_C003,
207 Pamborus_C004,
211 Mecyclothorax_C008,
212 Mecyclothorax_C009,
216 Coptocarpus_C015,
219 Castelnaudia_C018,
220 Castelnaudia_C019,
221 Castelnaudia_C020,
224 Leiradira_C023,
225 Leiradira_C024,
226 Leiradira_C025,
227 Leiradira_C026,
228 Leiradira_C027,
229 Leiradira_C028,
230 Leiradira_C029,
231 Leiradira_C030,
234 Notonomus_C033,
235 Notonomus_C034,
236 Notonomus_C035,
237 Notonomus_C036,
238 Notonomus_C037,
239 Notonomus_C038,
240 Notonomus_C039,
241 Notonomus_C040,
242 Notonomus_C041,
243 Notonomus_C042,
247 Trichosternus_C047,
248 Trichosternus_C048,
249 Trichosternus_C049,
250 Trichosternus_C050,
251 Trichosternus_C051,
252 Trichosternus_C052,
253 Trichosternus_C053,
254 Trichosternus_C055,
255 Trichosternus_C056,
258 Harpaline_C058,
259 Harpaline_C059,
261 Anomotarus_C061,
265 Carenum_C068,
268 Philipis_CP07,
269 Philipis_CP10,
270 Philipis_CP15,
271 Philipis_CP16,
272 Philipis_CP19,
273 Philipis_CP20,
274 Philipis_CP21,
275 Philipis_CP23,
276 Philipis_CP24,
277 Philipis_CP25,
278 Philipis_CP26,
279 Philipis_CP27,
280 Philipis_CP32,
281 Philipis_CP33,
282 Philipis_CP34,
283 Philipis_CP36,
285 Terradessus_DY01,
287 Athemistus_AT01,
288 Athemistus_AT02,
293 Adelium_AD04,
294 Adelium_AD06,
295 Adelium_AD07,
296 Adelium_AD08,
297 Adelium_AD09,
298 Adelium_AD11,
299 Adelium_AD12,
300 Adelium_AD13,
303 Coripera_AD16,
304 Adelium_AD17,
307 Bellendenum_AD20,
308 Bellendenum_AD21,
310 Monteithium_AD23,
314 Dicyrtodes_AD28,
316 Epomidus_AD30,
318 Diaspirus_AD31,
320 Leptogastrus_AD35,
321 Leptogastrus_AD36,
322 Coripera_AD40,
323 Coripera_AD41,
325 Apocryphodes_AD43,
326 Leptogastrus_AD44,
327 Adelium_AD45,
328 Bellendenum_AD47,
330 Caxtonana_CM01,
331 Caxtonana_CM02,
332 Caxtonana_CM03,
333 Caxtonana_CM04,
334 Caxtonana_CM05,
335 Caxtonana_CM06,
336 Caxtonana_CM07,
338 Apterotheca_CM09,
339 Apterotheca_CM10,
341 Cuemus_CM12,
342 Cuemus_CM13,
343 Caxtonana_CM14,
344 Caxtonana_CM15,
347 Omolipus_CM18,
348 Caxtonana_CM21,
349 Apterotheca_CM23,
350 Apterotheca_CM24,
351 Apterotheca_CM25,
352 Apterotheca_CM26,
353 Apterotheca_CM27,
354 Apterotheca_CM28,
355 Apterotheca_CM29,
356 Apterotheca_CM30,
357 Apterotheca_CM32,
358 Apterotheca_CM33,
359 Apterotheca_CM35a,
360 Apterotheca_CM35b,
361 Apterotheca_CM35c,
362 Apterotheca_CM36,
363 Apterotheca_CM37,
364 Apterotheca_CM38,
365 Apterotheca_CM39,
366 Apterotheca_CM40,
367 Caxtonana_CM41,
368 Apterotheca_CM42,
369 Omolipus_CM43,
370 Apterotheca_CM50,
373 Mychestes_MY01,
374 Mychestes_MY03,
376 Lissapterus_LU01,
378 Amphistomus_D004,
381 Aptenocanthon_D008,
382 Aptenocanthon_D009,
383 Aptenocanthon_D010,
384 Aptenocanthon_D011,
386 Temnoplectron_D019,
389 Lepanus_D088,
390 Temnoplectron_D097,
391 Temnoplectron_D138,
392 Pseudignambia_D139,
393 Pseudignambia_D140,
394 Pseudignambia_D141,
395 Pseudignambia_D142,
396 Pseudignambia_D143,
397 Pseudignambia_D144,
398 Pseudignambia_D145,
399 Pseudignambia_D146,
400 Pseudignambia_D147,
401 Pseudignambia_D148,
402 Pseudignambia_D149,
403 Pseudignambia_D150,
404 Pseudignambia_D151,
405 Pseudignambia_D152,
406 Pseudignambia_D153,
407 Pseudignambia_D154,
408 Pseudignambia_D155,
409 Pseudignambia_D156
;

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#NEXUS

[! Created by TreeMakerB v1.0.7d 12/4/04]

[Data courtesy of NJ Gottelli from the study by Gottelli & Ellison 2002]

[Data are from ‘Most Recent Bog Ant Matrices.xls’]

[panel ‘Forests. Abundance data from pitfall traps only]

[The systematic divisions used were subfamily, tribe, genus and species]

BEGIN DATA;

DIMENSIONS NTAX=34 NCHAR=22;

FORMAT DATATYPE=CONTINUOUS;

CHARSTATELABELS

1 site_ARC,
2 site_BH,
3 site_CB,
4 site_CKB,
5 site_HAW,
6 site_HBC,
7 site_OB,
8 site_PK,
9 site_QP,
10 site_RP,
11 site_SKP,
12 site_SW,
13 site_TPB,
14 site_WIN,
15 site_SPR,
16 site_SNA,
17 site_PEA,
18 site_CHI,
19 site_MOL,
20 site_COL,
21 site_MOO,
22 site_CAR
;

MATRIX

Amblypone_pallipes 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0
Aphaenogaster_rudis 48 1 2 63 15 98 41 5 5 22 35 16 2 0 11 0 0 7 0 23 0 0
Leptothorax_curvispinosus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leptothorax_ambiguus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
Leptothorax_longispinosus 0 18 2 3 0 0 16 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 16 0 0
Myrmecina_americana 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Myrmica_cfbrevispinosus 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Myrmica_detrinodis 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 59 12
Myrmica_punctiventris 2 0 115 44 0 50 1 17 1 202 8 16 1 1 6 1 0 0 0 139 0 0
Myrmica_sculptilis 0 2 1 24 0 9 0 1 23 60 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Myrmica_smithana 0 0 0 5 0 3 0 0 1 56 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stenamma_diecki 0 3 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
Stenamma_impar 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Stenamma_schmitti 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Camponotus_herculeanus 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 5 39
Camponotus_noveborencensis 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Camponotus_nearcticus 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Camponotus_pennsylvanicus 3 5 0 1 2 16 17 15 0 122 1 7 56 0 250 0 0 0 8 0 0
Formica_argentea 0 0 0 0 0 78 0 0 0 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Formica_fusca 0 0 0 20 0 1 5 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Formica_glacialis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Formica_neogagates 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Formica_obscuriventris 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Formica_subintegra 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 209 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Formica_subsericea 0 0 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 18 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lasius_alienus 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 9 1 5 0 0 0 0 3 3 5 0 4 4 4
Lasius_flavus 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lasius_neoniger 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
Lasius_speculiventris 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lasius_umbratus 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 2 0
Prenolepis_imparis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dolichoderus_plagiatus 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tapinoma_sessile 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stenamma_brevicorne 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
;

END;

BEGIN TREES;

TRANSLATE

6 Amblypone_pallipes,
12 Aphaenogaster_rudis,
15 Leptothorax_curvispinosus,
16 Leptothorax_ambiguus,
17 Leptothorax_longispinosus,
22 Myrmecina_americana,
25 Myrmica_cfbrevispinosus,
26 Myrmica_detrinodis,
27 Myrmica_punctiventris,
28 Myrmica_sculptilis,
29 Myrmica_smithana,
32 Stenamma_diecki,
33 Stenamma_impar,
34 Stenamma_schmitti,
41 Camponotus_herculeanus,
42 Camponotus_noveborencensis,
43 Camponotus_nearcticus,
44 Camponotus_pennsylvanicus,
48 Formica_argentea,
49 Formica_fusca,
50 Formica_glacialis,
51 Formica_neogagates,
53 Formica_obscuriventris,
54 Formica_subintegra,
55 Formica_subsericea,
58 Lasius_alienus,
59 Lasius_flavus,
60 Lasius_neoniger,
61 Lasius_speculiventris,
62 Lasius_umbratus,
64 Prenolepis_imparis,
69 Dolichoderus_plagiatus,
71 Tapinoma_sessile,
72 Stenamma_brevicorne
;

TREE tree_1 = ((((6:0.25):0.25):0.25):0.25,(((12:0.25):0.25):0.25, ((15:0.25,16:0.25,17:0.25):0.25):0.25,((22:0.25):0.25):0.25, ((25:0.25,26:0.25,27:0.25,28:0.25,29:0.25):0.25):0.25, ((32:0.25,33:0.25,34:0.25,72:0.25):0.25):0.25):0.25, (((41:0.25,42:0.25,43:0.25,44:0.25):0.25):0.25, ((48:0.25,49:0.25,50:0.25,51:0.25,53:0.25,54:0.25,55:0.25):0.25):0.25, ((58:0.25,59:0.25,60:0.25,61:0.25,62:0.25):0.25,(64:0.25):0.25):0.25):0.25, (((69:0.25):0.25,(71:0.25):0.25):0.25):0.25); END;

#NEXUS

[! Created by TreeMakerB v1.1.1 31/5/05]

[Species list taken from Daugherty et al 1994, distributions were simulated]

[The systematic levels used were order, suborder, infraorder, family, genus and species].

BEGIN DATA;

DIMENSIONS NTAX=62 NCHAR=15;

FORMAT DATATYPE=CONTINUOUS;

CHARSTATELABELS

1 site_1,
2 site_2,
3 site_3,
4 site_4,
5 site_5,
6 site_6,
7 site_7,
8 site_8,
9 site_9,
10 site_10,
11 site_11,
12 site_12,
13 site_13,
14 site_14,
15 site_15
;

MATRIX

Sphenodon_guntheri 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Sphenodon_punctulatus 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Hoplodactylus_spPKI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
Cyclodina_spTwo 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Naultinus_tuberculatus 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Hoplodactylus_chrysosireticus 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Hoplodactylus_duvaucelii 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Hoplodactylus_granulatus 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Hoplodactylus_kahutarae 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Hoplodactylus_maculatus 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Hoplodactylus_nebulosus 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Hoplodactylus_pacificus 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Hoplodactylus_stephensi 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Hoplodactylus_spNK 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
Hoplodactylus_spMa 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hoplodactylus_spMtA 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hoplodactylus_spCan 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Hoplodactylus_spSoA 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Hoplodactylus_spDap 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Hoplodactylus_spEaO 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Hoplodactylus_spWeO 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hoplodactylus_spSoM 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Hoplodactylus_spWes 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Hoplodactylus_sp3KI 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Hoplodactylus_spMaI 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hoplodactylus_rakiurae 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Naultinus_elegans 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Naultinus_gemmeus 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Naultinus_grayii 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Naultinus_manukanus 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Naultinus_rudis 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Naultinus_stellatus 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Cyclodina_aenea 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Cyclodina_alani 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
Cyclodina_macgregori 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cyclodina_oliveri 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
Cyclodina_ornata 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Cyclodina_whitakeri 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Cyclodina_spOne 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Leiolopisma_acrinasum 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
Leiolopisma_chloronoton 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Leiolopisma_fallai 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
Leiolopisma_grande 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiolopisma_homalanotum 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
Leiolopisma_inconspicuum 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Leiolopisma_infrapunctatum 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Leiolopisma_lineoocellatum 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiolopisma_maccanni 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiolopisma_microlepis 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiolopisma_moco 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Leiolopisma_nigriplantare 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Leiolopisma_polychroma 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Leiolopisma_notosaurus 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Leiolopisma_otagense 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Leiolopisma_waimatense 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Leiolopisma_smithi 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiolopisma_stenotis 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiolopisma_striatum 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiolopisma_suteri 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Leiolopisma_zelandicum 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Leiolopisma_spOne 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Leiolopisma_spTwo 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
;

END;

BEGIN TREES;

TRANSLATE

9 Sphenodon_guntheri,
8 Sphenodon_punctulatus,
40 Hoplodactylus_spPKI,
55 Cyclodina_spTwo,
47 Naultinus_tuberculatus,
19 Hoplodactylus_chrysosireticus,
20 Hoplodactylus_duvaucelii,
21 Hoplodactylus_granulatus,
22 Hoplodactylus_kahutarae,
23 Hoplodactylus_maculatus,
24 Hoplodactylus_nebulosus,
25 Hoplodactylus_pacificus,
26 Hoplodactylus_stephensi,
27 Hoplodactylus_spNK,
28 Hoplodactylus_spMa,
29 Hoplodactylus_spMtA,
30 Hoplodactylus_spCan,
31 Hoplodactylus_spSoA,
32 Hoplodactylus_spDap,
33 Hoplodactylus_spEaO,
34 Hoplodactylus_spWeO,
35 Hoplodactylus_spSoM,
36 Hoplodactylus_spWes,
37 Hoplodactylus_sp3KI,
38 Hoplodactylus_spMaI,
39 Hoplodactylus_rakiurae,
41 Naultinus_elegans,
42 Naultinus_gemmeus,
43 Naultinus_grayii,
44 Naultinus_manukanus,
45 Naultinus_rudis,
46 Naultinus_stellatus,
48 Cyclodina_aenea,
49 Cyclodina_alani,
50 Cyclodina_macgregori,
51 Cyclodina_oliveri,
52 Cyclodina_ornata,
53 Cyclodina_whitakeri,
54 Cyclodina_spOne,
56 Leiolopisma_acrinasum,
57 Leiolopisma_chloronoton,
58 Leiolopisma_fallai,
59 Leiolopisma_grande,
60 Leiolopisma_homalanotum,
61 Leiolopisma_inconspicuum,
62 Leiolopisma_infrapunctatum,
63 Leiolopisma_lineoocellatum,
64 Leiolopisma_maccanni,
65 Leiolopisma_microlepis,
66 Leiolopisma_moco,
67 Leiolopisma_nigriplantare,
68 Leiolopisma_polychroma,
69 Leiolopisma_notosaurus,
70 Leiolopisma_otagense,
71 Leiolopisma_waimatense,
72 Leiolopisma_smithi,
73 Leiolopisma_stenotis,
74 Leiolopisma_striatum,
75 Leiolopisma_suteri,
76 Leiolopisma_zelandicum,
77 Leiolopisma_spOne,
78 Leiolopisma_spTwo
;

TREE tree_1 = ((((((8:0.1666667,9:0.1666667):0.1666667):0.1666667):0.1666667):0.1666667):0.1666667, (((((19:0.1666667,20:0.1666667,21:0.1666667,22:0.1666667,23:0.1666667,24:0.1666667,25:0.1 666667,26:0.1666667,27:0.1666667,28:0.1666667,29:0.1666667,30:0.1666667,31:0.1666667,32:0.1666667,33:0.1666667,34:0.1666667,35:0.1666667,36:0.1666667,37:0.1666667,38:0.1666667,39:0.1666667,40:0.1666667):0.1666667, (41:0.1666667,42:0.1666667,43:0.1666667,44:0.1666667,45:0.1666667,46:0.1666667,47:0.1666667):0.1666667):0.1666667):0.1666667, (((48:0.1666667,49:0.1666667,50:0.1666667,51:0.1666667,52:0.1666667,53:0.1666667,54:0.1666667,55:0.1666667):0.1666667, (56:0.1666667,57:0.1666667,58:0.1666667,59:0.1666667,60:0.1666667,61:0.1666667,62:0.1666667,63:0.1666667,64:0.1666667,65:0.1666667,66:0.1666667,67:0.1666667,68:0.1666667,69:0.1666667,70:0.1666667,71:0.1666667,72:0.1666667,73:0.1666667,74:0.1666667,75:0.1666667,76:0.1666667,77:0.1666667,78:0.1666667):0.1666667):0.1666667):0.1666667):0.1666667):0.1666667);

END;

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