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Table 1 Robinson-Foulds (RF) distances as % difference between trees using the Sanger (SS) and NGS datasets

From: Comparing species tree estimation with large anchored phylogenomic and small Sanger-sequenced molecular datasets: an empirical study on Malagasy pseudoxyrhophiine snakes

Sanger Trees

SS MP-EST 5 Loci

SS STAR 5 Loci

SS *BEAST 5 Loci

377 MP-EST/STAR/Concatenated

5 Loci MP-EST

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RF = 10 %

RF = 14 %

RF = 19 %

5 Loci STAR

RF = 10 %

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RF = 14 %

RF = 19 %

5 Loci *BEAST

RF = 14 %

RF = 14 %

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RF = 10 %

5 Loci Concatenated

RF = 19 %

RF = 19 %

RF = 14 %

RF = 19 %

4 Loci (no COI) MP-EST

RF = 10 %

RF = 5 %

RF = 19 %

RF = 24 %

4 Loci (no COI) STAR

RF = 10 %

RF = 10 %

RF = 24 %

RF = 33 %

4 Loci (no CytB) MP-EST

RF = 14 %

RF = 19 %

RF = 29 %

RF = 29 %

4 Loci (no CytB) STAR

RF = 10 %

RF = 0 %

RF = 14 %

RF = 19 %

3 Loci (nucDNA) MP-EST

RF = 19 %

RF = 14 %

RF = 29 %

RF = 33 %

3 Loci (nucDNA) STAR

RF = 19 %

RF = 14 %

RF = 29 %

RF = 33 %

  1. Note that the MP-EST, STAR, and concatenated trees for the 377 loci NGS datasets were identical and so are in one column