Figure 3 shows three trees that illustrate typical clade patterns, including confounding factors such as sequence losses (in all clades except the top in 3B) and probable branch-placement conflicts (e.g. 3C upper), and low bootstrap support for some clades (e.g. 3C lower).
APP can be further enhanced by considering a shape context model of branches extracted from a proof-corrected database of neuron morphology (Peng et al., 2011a), so that the resultant system would be able to produce probabilistically more probable branches, instead of connecting regions purely based on intensity.
All topologies were equally probable, and branch lengths were unconstrained.
The time-scaled phylogeographic MCC (maximum clade credibility) trees of HA and NA and the root state posterior probability are illustrated in Figure 1 and Figure 2, in which the most probable location of each branch is assigned different colours and the calibrating time-scale is shown on the bottom.
We used a gamma-shaped distribution of rates across sites, uniformly distributed on the interval [0,200]; the proportion of invariable sites was uniformly distributed on the interval [0,1]; the Gamma distribution was approximated using 4 categories; all topologies were equally probable a priori; the branch lengths were unconstrained.
The character mapping analysis retrieved the estimated number of changes in the ancestral nodes, together with the probable transformations along the branches (Table 2).
We specified (i) a uniform prior probability of phylogenies (i.e. all possible trees are considered a priori equally probable), and (ii) a uniform prior probability distribution on branch lengths.
This resulted in a smaller number of probable reversals compared to the internal branches (results not shown), however the pattern was not as obvious as that with parallel changes where none were seen in the terminal branches (see above).
The further divergence within these branches of M2a exhibit probable pattern of more shared haplotypes within populations of geographic proximity followed by population specific haplotypes and a few shared haplotypes among geographically apart populations.
It is probable that Oreopithecus represents a specialized side branch of primate evolution that did not give rise to more advanced forms; it is generally included in a separate ape family, the Oreopithecidae.
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