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. 2010 Jul 23;59(5):518–533. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syq037

TABLE 1.

Support for major clades of eukaryotes in analyses containing varying levels of taxon inclusion and missing data

10:16 6:16 4: 16 all:16 9:15 5:15 3:15 all:15
Supported clades
    Opisthokonta 99a 97a 97a 69 100a 99a 85 19
    Rhizaria 100a 99a 94a 82 100a 100a 47 29
    SAR 97a 98a 63 22 100a 100a 32 19
    Rhizaria + stramenopiles 94a 94a 57 26 92a 96a 29 18
    Excavata 83 77 65 6 84 76 44 19
    Amoebozoa 59 46 49 nm 68 56 44 5
    “Unikonta” 63 39 21 nm 54 50 15 3
Weak/unsupported hypotheses
    “Archaeplastida” nm nm nm nm nm nm nm nm
    “Chromalveloata” nm nm nm nm nm nm nm nm
    Cryptomonads + haptophytes 33 50 nm 29 38 56 22 25
    Haptophytes + SAR nm nm 15 nm nm nm nm nm
    Alveolates + stramenopiles nm nm nm nm nm nm nm nm
    Red algae + green algae nm nm nm nm nm nm nm nm
    Red, Green, Glauco, Hapto, Crypt 47 32 nm 9 39 27 16 8
Data set statistics
    Number of taxa 88 111 160 451 88 111 160 240
    Number of lineages 26 30 45 72 26 30 45 54
    % Missing data (characters) 17 25 38 69 19 28 43 59

Note: Supported clades are stable across analyses, albeit with decreasing support as the percentage of missing data increases. Bootstrap support values from RAxML analyses. Support values greater than 75 are indicated by bold text and greater than 85 are indicated with a. nm = nonmonophyletic. Column headings describe the data sets. For example, “10:16” includes all taxa that have at least 10 of the 16 genes, with a total of 88 taxa representing 26 lineages and containing 17% missing data. The “all:15” includes the protein-coding genes from all taxa and contains 59% missing data. See Table S2 for lineages and Figure S1a–h for individual trees.

a

Support values greater than 85.