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. 2011 Jun 29;6(6):e21605. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021605

Table 2. For each region, the posterior probability for a tree that supports (1) reciprocal monophyly of chimpanzees and bonobos (2) and monophyletic grouping of bonobos (3) chimpanzees as a whole (3–6) each population of chimpanzee separately.

Region Reciprocal monophyly Monophyly of
Bonobos Chimpanzees Western chimpanzees Nigerian-Cameroonian chimpanzees Eastern chimpanzees Central chimpanzees
mtDNA 1 1 1 0.999 1 0 0
a 0.003 1 0.003 0.002 0 0 0
b 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
c 0.494 1 0.494 0.077 0 0 0
d 0.955 1 0.955 0 0 0 0
e 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
f 0.223 1 0.223 0.956 0 0 0
g 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
h 0.076 0.913 0.081 0 0 0 0
i 0.946 0.957 0.989 0 0 0 0
J 0.005 1 0.005 0.607 0 0 0
k 0.375 0.998 0.377 0 0 0 0
l 0.077 1 0.077 0.002 0 0 0
m 0.002 1 0.002 1 0 0 0
n 0 0.999 0 1 0 0 0
o 0.163 1 0.163 0 0 0 0

To compute this posterior probability, we counted in how many trees from the posterior distribution was a given population monophyletic, and in how many trees were both bonobos and chimpanzees monophyletic. For the text, we arbitrarily defined a tree as showing support for monophyly if the posterior probability >95% and as showing support for paraphyly if the posterior probability <5%.