However, the precise relationships of the families within the order are still unclear; they were poorly supported in the analyses of Mennes et al. (2013), for example.
Well supported nodes in the analyses of the combined sequence (when nuclear genes were used) were constrained to ensure that the Beast analyses obtained the same topology.
Intriguingly, the level of support in these analyses of four genes, including numerous newly-characterized sequences, matches what emerged from a review of the literature on molecular phylogenetic analyses of eukaryotes in general [ 14].
This overview also support the additional categories identified in the analyses of the interviews in our pilot, i.e. organizational structure and the rehabilitation process related to patient needs, and resources [ 10].
Interestingly, the group formed by haptophyte and cryptophyte plastids had greater support in the ML analysis (97% bootstrap value) but little support with NJ method with the 83-protein dataset and was strongly supported by the three methods in the analyses of the slowly-evolving proteins.
The support that this particular grouping receives in the analyses of more rapidly evolving genes seems likely to be due to an LBA artifact that leads to an incorrect association between the rhabdocoels and neodermatans, both of which have long branches.
Furthermore, this finding is supported by the analyses of all subcategories in the study.
Notably, bootstrap support for this clade was below 50 in the analyses of both mitochondrial and combined data and all previous topology tests clearly rejected this relationship.
Monophyletic Mecopterida, as proposed by Hinton [ 5] under the name Panorpoidea (or panorpoid complex), was not well supported in Kjer et al. [ 25] and Wiegmann et al. [ 13], and only supported in the Bayesian analyses of morphological characters in Beutel et al. [ 15].
Putative eukaryotic supergroups receive mixed support in our analyses of the 105-taxon dataset.
