TABLE 2.

Mean reliability scores in phylogenetic reconstructions^a

No. of genes in concatemers	Reliability score, mean ± SD
	Maximum likelihood	Minimum evolution	Neighbor joining	Maximum parsimony
1	0.27 ± 0.09	0.31 ± 0.10	0.31 ± 0.10	0.22 ± 0.09
2	0.43 ± 0.01	0.40 ± 0.04	0.42 ± 0.01	0.41 ± 0.01
3	0.53 ± 0.02	0.54 ± 0.01	0.53 ± 0.02	0.44 ± 0.04
4	0.59 ± 0.02	0.60 ± 0.02	0.59 ± 0.02	0.47 ± 0.02
5	0.57 ± 0.01	0.57 ± 0.01	0.57 ± 0.01	0.51 ± 0.03
6	0.55 ± 0.01	0.56 ± 0.01	0.55 ± 0.01	0.47 ± 0.01

^aEach reliability score is the number of nodes with bootstrap values greater than or equal to 80 divided by the total number of nodes. Standard deviations represent 1 standard deviation from the mean. The genes used in the concatemers are as follows: 16S rRNA gene, ftsZ, gapA, gyrB, recA, or rpoA in 1-gene concatemers, recA and rpoA in 2-gene concatemers, recA, rpoA, and gapA in 3-gene concatemers, 16S rRNA gene, recA, rpoA, and gapA in 4-gene concatemers, 16S rRNA gene, recA, rpoA, gapA, and gyrB in 5-gene concatemers, and 16S rRNA gene, recA, rpoA, gapA, gyrB, and ftsZ in 6-gene concatemers.