As noted above, the morphological partition alone does not recover most suprageneric clades of the combined-data analysis, and weakly disagrees with many aspects of the GHR tree (Fig. 4).
"They've shown that partition doesn't equal division".
The consensus partition does not necessarily coincide with any of the original partitions.
MAW conceived the study, compiled the morphological dataset, performed the tests for phylogenetic signal and congruence of partitions, did the leaf stability and taxon impact analyses, performed the parsimony analyses, wrote the paper and prepared figures.
The nuclear data partitions did, however, perform better.
For eight of these, the morphological partition conflicted with all the molecular partitions that contributed clade support.
A Bayesian analysis of the morphological partition also was executed using MrBayes 3.1.2 [ 126].
Simultaneous analysis using 42 gene partitions and a morphological partition yield a phylogenetic hypothesis with a monophyletic gymnosperms which is at odds with the Anthophyte hypothesis.
The Gatesy et al. (1999) review came at a time when systematists were using at most 20 gene partitions and perhaps a single morphological partition in their analyses.
The 400-character morphological partition draws heavily on previous phylogenetic investigations of afrotherian orders [ 10, 13, 42- 44, 60- 63].
