Table 2

Normalised partition metric [55,56] and 'explicitly agree' triplet scores of supertrees and supermatrices.

Normalised partition metric

LEA

LEA+P 1:1

LEA+P 4:1

Full ST

MEA

GEA

'Explicitly agree triplets'

LEA

-

0.327

0.244

0.409

0.464

0.179

LEA+P 1:1

0.241

-

0.143

0.305

0.345

0.185

LEA+P 4:1

0.021

0.227

-

0.317

0.286

0.143

Full ST

0.119

0.313

0.102

-

0.135

0.091

MEA

0.168

0.457

0.146

0.001

-

0.105

GEA

0.054

0.080

0.008

0.005

0.006

-

'LEA' = Combined morphological and molecular supertree of Liu et al. ([29]; their Figure 1); 'LEA+P 1:1' = 1:1 equally weighted supertree following application of protocol to the LEA references (50% majority rule consensus; not shown); 'LEA+P 4:1' = 4: 1 upweighted supertree following application of protocol to the LEA references (50% majority rule consensus; Figure 2); 'Full ST' = extended analysis supertree, based on an updated set of references (50% majority rule consensus; Figure 1); 'MEA' = molecular topology of Murphy et al. ([17] their Figure 1); 'GEA' = morphological and molecular topology of Gatesy et al. ([11]; their Figure 4).

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