| ABS | Average bootstrap support |
| nt | Nucleotide |
| aa | Amino acid |
| BS | Bootstrap support |
| UFBS | Ultrafast bootstrap support |
| ML | Maximum likelihood |
| IC | Internode certainty |
| ICA | Internode certainty including all conflicting bipartitions |
| TC | Tree certainty; |
| TCA | Tree certainty including all conflicting bipartitions |
| pp | Posterior probability |
| RTCA | Relative tree certainty including all conflicting bipartitions; |
| EB | Ethidium bromide |
| SRA | Short Read Archive |
| TSA | Transcriptome Shotgun Assembly |