Table 2.
Genes used for phylogenetic analyses
| Code | Gene | Description | Number of species* | Length of alignment (amino acids) | No. of parsimony-informative characters | Min. possible no. of changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA | SAH1 | Homocysteine hydrolase | 38 | 279 | 84 | 271 |
| GI | PGI1 | Phosphoglucose isomerase | 39 | 182 | 85 | 306 |
| PG | PGK1 | Phosphoglycerate kinase | 36 | 268 | 97 | 391 |
| DE | ADE6 | Formylglycinamidine ribonucleotide synthetase | 31 | 158 | 100 | 362 |
| ME | MET6 | Methionine synthase | 36 | 160 | 65 | 208 |
| AT | ATP2 | ATP synthase | 40 | 223 | 45 | 160 |
| GC | GCD11 | Translation initiation factor | 30 | 219 | 79 | 264 |
| FS | FAS1 | Fatty acid synthetase | 36 | 121 | 61 | 230 |
| PA | PDA1 | Pyruvate dehydrogenase | 35 | 125 | 51 | 159 |
| VM | VMA2 | ATPase | 38 | 180 | 28 | 67 |
| EC | ECM17 | Sulphite reductase | 37 | 197 | 117 | 484 |
| OL | POL2 | DNA polymerase | 36 | 150 | 83 | 327 |
| LT1 | GLT1 | Glutamate synthase | 42 | 149 | 89 | 417 |
| LT2 | GLT1 | Glutamate synthase | 32 | 176 | 103 | 369 |
| 18S | 18S | 18S rRNA gene† | 30 | 1993 | 336 | 906 |
*
Includes published genomic data from 18 species (17 for PGK1 and GLT1-2).
†
From GenBank; length of alignment measured in nucleotides, not amino acids.