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1. Consistency Index
3. Consensus trees
5. Bootstrapping / Jackknifing
• There are many consensus methods that differ in: • They show only those relationships that are
1. the kind of agreement unambiguously supported by the data
2. the level of agreement
• The commonest method (strict component
• Consensus methods can be used with multiple consensus) focuses on clades/components/full
trees from a single analysis or from multiple splits
analyses
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includes all and only those full splits found in all the
fundamental trees
• Can be less optimal than any of the optimal trees Simplest to interpret
• Majority-rule consensus methods require • This method produces a consensus tree that
agreement across a majority of the fundamental includes all and only those full splits found in a
trees majority (>50%) of the fundamental trees
• May include relationships that are not supported by • Other relationships are shown as unresolved
the most parsimonious interpretation of the data polytomies
• The commonest method focuses on clades/ • Of particular use in bootstrapping and Bayesian
components/full splits Inference (best not to use for single searches)
A B C D E F G A B C E F D G A B C E D F G
1. Summarizing multiple equally optimal trees
from one search (but they shouldn’t be!)
2. Summarizing the results of a bootstrapping
analysis (multiple searches)
Numbers indicate A B C E D F G
3. Summarizing the results of a Bayesian
frequency of analysis
100 66
clades in the 66 66
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Bootstrapping (non-parametric)
• Bootstrapping is a statistical
technique that uses computer
intensive random resampling
of data to determine sampling
error or confidence intervals
for some estimated parameter
• Introduced to phylogenetics by
Decay values versus Bootstrap and Jacknife values Felsenstein in 1985
from one empirical study • Based on idea of Efron (1979)
Norén, M. & U. Jondelius. 1999. Phylogeny of the Prolecithophora
(Platyhelminthes) inferred from 18S rDNA sequences. Cladistics 15: 103-112.
Bootstrapping (non-parametric)
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Huelsenbeck, J.P. and Rannala, B. (2004) Frequentist properties of Bayesian posterior probabilities of • In other words, although technically they are meant
phylogenetic trees under simple and complex substitution models. Systematic Biology 53: 904-913.
to be a measure precision, they are usually thought
to be at least strongly correlated with accuracy
Paul Lewis
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• Some proportion of characters (e.g. 37%, 50%) are 2. Lack of data - even a dataset with no homoplasy can yield
randomly selected and deleted poorly resolved trees if there are branches without change
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Study questions
Describe the difference between a strict and majority rule
consensus tree."
What were the key findings of DeBry in his (2001) paper on Decay
Indices?"