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Missing taxa in this total analysis belonged to taxa represented by 1 individual (lowest abundance).
Missing taxa in both DNA sources were from species with the lowest abundance (e.g. 1 individual) in the benthic mixture.
But we still have some missing taxa in our sampling scheme, such as Rhoicissus with only 41% species sampled.
Missing taxa in both DNA sources were mainly from species with low abundance in our benthic sample and taxa with more than 1% were seldom missed.
An input tree and supertree are in agreement when the relationship in the input tree directly matches that in the supertree (accounting for missing taxa in input trees).
The missing taxa in our sampling should have little effect in the present study that focused on phylogenetic relationships among genera and biogeographic evolution at the intercontinental level.
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If simulations were performed taking missing taxa into account, those taxa were deleted from the genes which were also absent in the original data.
In addition, most of our datasets have a relatively low number of missing taxa and in all cases, the proportion of sampled species is more than the 80% level recently proposed as a threshold [ 54, 56].
While this illustrates the effect of missing taxa for genes in the EST database, an analysis will benefit from the compounded information obtained from including all partitions containing 3 to 9 ingroup taxa, below and above which phylogenetic information will be null.
The DDL model is not able to incorporate missing taxa whereas the Cuban clade in this study included all described species.
For each partial tree with missing taxa – that is, taxa that are in the complete taxa set but not in the taxa set for that tree – the missing taxa are inserted in the tree.
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