Unweighted maximum parsimony analysis yielded five equally parsimonious trees.
Unweighted maximum parsimony analysis yielded a single most parsimonious tree of 75 steps in length (consistency index = 0.987; retention index = 0.994; Fig. 5).
The maximum parsimony analysis by NONA yielded only one most parsimonious tree (Fig. 11a; tree length = 70 steps, consistency index (CI) = 0.60, retention index (RI) = 0.68).
Heuristic maximum parsimony analysis of the concatenated dataset yielded 1780 most parsimonious trees of length 3665.
Maximum parsimony analysis of concatenated genes yielded a single most parsimonious tree with high level of bootstrap support for the majority of the individual branches.
The MP (Maximum Parsimony) analysis of the combined dataset resulted in 80 equally most parsimonious trees, the strict consensus of which is shown in Fig 1.
Maximum parsimony analysis and bootstrap resampling was conducted as above, obtaining one more parsimonious tree.
Once aligned, maximum parsimony analysis can be performed.
Tree topology, bootstrap percentages, branches that collapse in the strict consensus tree obtained from maximum parsimony analysis and Bayesian posterior probability values are indicated in Fig. 5.
Maximum parsimony analysis (MP) used a heuristic search strategy with tree-bisection-reconnection (TBR) branch swapping and the MULTREES option in effect, simple addition and ACCTRAN optimization.
Thus, to carry out a maximum parsimony analysis, we do not have to know the ancestral and derived conditions in advance.
