Table 3.
Properties of datasets used in this study and resulting tree statistics
| Dataset | Tribe-Wide nrITS | Downscaled nrITS | Xdh | Combined nDNA | Combined cpDNA | matK | psbA-trnH | trnL-F | trnS-trnG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Taxa | 235 | 110 | 84 | 110 | 110 | 110 | 80 | 85 | 77 |
| Alignment Lengtha | 815 | 741 | 880 | 1621 | 3682 | 832 | 964 | 1106 | 780 |
| No. of Variable Characters | 522 (64 %) | 441 (60 %) | 329 (37 %) | 770 (48 %) | 851 (23 %) | 264 (32 %) | 122 (13 %) | 267 (24 %) | 198 (25 %) |
| No. of Parsimony-Informative Characters | 461 (57 %) | 377 (51 %) | 190 (22 %) | 567 (35 %) | 521 (14 %) | 174 (21 %) | 61 (6 %) | 157 (14 %) | 129 (17 %) |
| Character No. of Coded Gapsb | 307 | 166 | – | 168 | 336 | – | 99 | 117 | 115 |
| No. of Most-Parsimonious Trees (MPTs) | 330 | 2253 | 9950 | 7840 | 9130 | 9870 | 480 | 5510 | 7250 |
| Tree Length | 3939 | 1970 | 593 | 2580 | 1714 | 570 | 207 | 526 | 365 |
| Consistency Index (CI)c | 0.270 | 0.405 | 0.707 | 0.471 | 0.616 | 0.575 | 0.662 | 0.643 | 0.693 |
| Retention Index (RI) | 0.807 | 0.789 | 0.791 | 0.787 | 0.825 | 0.826 | 0.836 | 0.833 | 0.864 |
| Best-Fit Substitution Model | GTR + I + G | GTR + I + G | HKY + I + G | – | – | GTR + G | GTR + I + G | GTR + G | GTR + I + G |
| No. of Excluded Ambiguously Aligned Charactersd | – | – | – | – | 661 (15 %) | – | 116 (11 %) | 200 (15 %) | 345 (31 %) |
aDetermined after the ambiguously aligned characters had been excluded
bGaps were coded by the Simple Gap Coding method of Simmons and Ochoterena [71], which excludes ambiguously aligned characters
cEstimated including autapomorphies
dFigures are approximate due to ambiguous alignment