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. 2012 Feb;62(2):764–776. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.11.021

Table 3.

Summary of MP analyses of plastid and nuclear markers.

trnQ-5rps16 rpl32-trnL rpl16 trnK-matK cpnDNA cpDNA + gaps ETS ITS nDNA cpDNA + ETS cpDNA + ITS cpDNA cpDNA + ETS + ITS + gaps
Number of taxa 50 50 50 49 50 50 50 49 50 50 50 50 50
Character 1465 885 1005 1083 4438 4628 502 642 1145 4940 5080 5582 6226
Constant characters (%) 1292 (88.19) 795 (89.83) 904 (89.95) 978 (90.34) 3969 (89.43) 379 (75.49) 516 (80.37) 895 4348 4485 4865
Variable characters (%) 109 (7.44) 57 (6.44) 65 (6.46) 73 (6.74) 304 (6.84) 68 (13.54) 61 (9.5) 129 372 365 433
NP-informative characters (%) 64 (4.36) 33 (3.72) 36 (3.58) 32 (2.95) 165 (3.71) 263 (5.68) 55 (10.95) 65 (10.12) 121 220 230 285 419
No. of most parsimonious trees 12 135 98 188 12 290 81 140 794 440 185 8 1192
Length 95 51 62 46 272 574 202 160 325 419 499 641 1050
Consistency index CI 0.77 0.66 0.62 0.76 0.66 0.48 0.66 0.51 0.48 0.59 0.54 0.52 0.44
Retention index (RI) 0.92 0.81 0.87 0.9 0.86 0.73 0.61 0.68 0.63 0.79 0.76 0.73 0.66