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Table 2 Mean relative tree scores (<S>), mean normalized Robinson – Foulds distances to the species trees (<D>) and the correlations coefficients: between scores and distances (rSD), between scores and alignment lengths (rSL), and between distances and lengths (rDL)

From: PQ, a new program for phylogeny reconstruction

Dataset

<S>

<D>

r SD

r SL

r DL

Metazoa-10

0.9919

0.345

− 0.40

0.29

− 0.21

Metazoa-15

0.9901

0.388

− 0.44

0.37

− 0.25

Fungi-15

0.9915

0.329

− 0.42

0.38

− 0.31

Proteobacteria-15

0.9816

0.564

− 0.27

0.39

− 0.03

Metazoa-25

0.9900

0.418

− 0.39

0.42

− 0.25

Fungi-30

0.9908

0.415

− 0.43

0.45

− 0.33

Proteobacteria-30

0.9779

0.682

− 0.25

0.42

− 0.15

Fungi-45

0.9912

0.445

− 0.48

0.47

− 0.33

Proteobacteria-45

0.9762

0.739

− 0.29

0.43

− 0.18

  1. Optimization strategy was 10 times repeated stepwise addition followed by NNI hill climbing, the scoring matrix was BLOSUM62