Table 1.

Relationships between likelihood branch lengths, support and congruence for 49 clades of squamate reptiles.

variables	Rho	p
branch length versus bootstrap support	0.667	0.0001
branch length versus proportion genes supporting	0.921	0.0001
branch length versus proportion genes strongly supporting (bs ≥70%)	0.931	0.0001
branch length versus proportion genes strongly supporting (bs ≥95%)	0.897	0.0001
branch length versus proportion genes strongly rejecting (bs ≥70%)	−0.491	0.0003
branch length versus proportion genes strongly rejecting (bs ≥95%)	−0.266	0.0646