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Visualizing differences in phylogenetic information content of alignments and distinction of three classes of long-branch effects

Johann Wolfgang Wägele1* email and Christoph Mayer2* email

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, 53113 Bonn, Germany

Lehrstuhl Spezielle Zoologie, Faculty of Biology, University Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:147doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-147

Published: 28 August 2007

Additional files

Additional file 1:

SAMS nexus block example (1). Example for SAMS commands in nexus format: Reading a data file. Excluding character positions or taxa from the analysis. Analysing base frequencies. Exporting the data set to different file formats.

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Additional file 2:

SAMS nexus block example (2). Example for SAMS commands in nexus format: Reading a data file. Exluding character positions or taxa from the analysis. Computing split supporting positions.

Format: NEX Size: 8KB Download file

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Alignment example in nexus format. Data set from Remerie et al 2004: Phylogenetic relationships within the Mysidae (Crustacea, Peracarida, Mysida) based on nuclear 18S ribosomal RNA sequences, Mol. Phyl. Evol., 32(3), pp 770–777.

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Additional file 4:

SAMS manual. Manual with description of functions and commands of the software SAMS

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Additional file 5:

SAMS. Executable file for the software SAMS

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