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As expected, the minimum evolution score was larger (2.31436).
The NJ analysis, with polymorphisms treated as ambiguities, likewise had short branch lengths (Fig. 4; minimum evolution score 2.16546).
The candidate tree with the minimum evolution score was retained and the edge onto which the polyploid species branched off was recorded.
The NJ tree with polymorphisms treated as character states (see Methods) had increased branch lengths leading to heteroplasmic species (Fig. 4; minimum evolution score 3.0905), resulting in stronger identification confidence for H. dimidiatus, H. kukui, and H. connectens and H. haleakalae populations as determined by BS support values (Fig. 5).
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The two-cluster test was conducted on the phylogenetic tree generated using minimum evolution using the program TPCV in LINTREE and only those comparisons with Z-scores high enough to give a p < 0.01 were taken as significant.
The minimum evolution criterion was used and branch lengths were allowed to be negative except when calculating tree scores.
The alternative methods of phylogenetic tree construction, minimum evolution and maximum likelihood, were tested, but the support for the minimum evolution tree was not sufficient (data not shown).
The phylogenetic tree was produced by the minimum evolution method and 1000 bootstrap iteration.
Four methods were employed, Neighbor-joining (NJ), UPGMA, Maximum parsimony, and Minimum evolution.
Minimum evolution trees were generated using the program Mega2 [ 26].
Figure 1a shows a minimum evolution tree of the 40 post-vaccination era isolates.
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