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. 2019 Dec 4;17(12):e3000494. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000494

Table 3. Model parameters optimized during the global RAxML tree search of the 4,098-species supermatrix.

  Patterns α Rates Frequencies
Partition A/C A/G A/T C/G C/T G/T A C G T
nDNA, pos1 9,345 0.40 1.69 4.54 0.86 1.07 4.02 1.00 0.28 0.23 0.28 0.21
nDNA, pos2 8,806 0.38 1.27 5.34 0.76 1.50 4.44 1.00 0.29 0.24 0.21 0.26
nDNA, pos3 10,685 1.19 1.22 5.42 0.90 1.08 5.88 1.00 0.24 0.26 0.25 0.25
mtDNA, pos1 1,253 0.52 1.08 6.67 1.70 0.17 16.01 1.00 0.30 0.25 0.22 0.23
mtDNA, pos2 1,213 0.39 3.38 18.08 2.25 3.84 14.26 1.00 0.19 0.27 0.13 0.42
mtDNA, pos3 1,292 0.05 0.36 9.53 0.52 0.46 6.04 1.00 0.42 0.32 0.04 0.22
APP, CREM, FBN1 1,558 0.34 1.32 3.39 0.39 0.93 3.40 1.00 0.27 0.22 0.22 0.29
BMI1 244 0.24 1.65 4.33 1.04 0.78 5.00 1.00 0.26 0.23 0.22 0.29
PLCB4 287 0.49 1.03 3.67 0.52 0.78 3.08 1.00 0.32 0.24 0.19 0.25

Summarized per partition are the number of distinct alignment patterns, estimated alpha-shape parameter (α) of the gamma distribution, two-way rates of the GTR model of nucleotide evolution, and empirical base frequencies.

Abbreviations: GTR, general time-reversible; mtDNA, mitochondrial DNA; nDNA, nuclear DNA; pos., codon position; RAxML, Randomized Axelerated Maximum Likelihood