Figure 8

Typical example of two phylogenetic positions in mosquitoes. Example of alternative phylogenetic positions caused by the shared-site uncertainty illustrated in Fig. 7a. It remains ambiguous whether the 15th haplotype should be branched from the 7th haplotype (node) in group 2 or from the 72nd haplotype (node) in group 5. This uncertainty was a major influence on the phylogeny, because the 72nd haplotype became the ancestor of the 250th, 271st, 127th, 221st, 36th, 97th, and 197th haplotypes. Here, the last three haplotypes yielded an additional uncertainty of their locations. Here, An→C denotes a substitution from A to C at the n th site.