Table 2 |
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Clade recovery results from maximum-likelihood analyses with varied taxon and character inclusion used to counter long-branch attraction. |
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Experiment |
Clade recovery |
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Maximum likelihood |
Coleoptera + Strepsiptera |
Halteria |
Basal Hymenoptera |
Mecopterida |
Neuropteroidea (with Strepsiptera) |
Amphiesmenoptera |
Antliophora |
Neuropterida |
|
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Third position included |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
|
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Amino acids |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
|
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Strepsiptera removed |
N/A |
N/A |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
|
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Out-groups removed |
+ |
- |
N/A |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
|
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Third RY coded |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
|
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First and third RY coded |
- |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
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Conservative alignment |
+ |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
|
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Taxa with base composition bias excluded |
- |
- |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
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These variations on taxon and character inclusion (with the exception of the inclusion of third positions) are cited as a means to rectify the effects of long-branch attraction. Clade recovery from these various methods is substantially in agreement with each other and with our final results. |
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Wiegmann et al. BMC Biology 2009 7:34 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-7-34 |
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