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Table 4 Percents of alignments for which different search strategies reach minimum Robinson – Foulds distance to the species tree

From: PQ, a new program for phylogeny reconstruction

Dataset

1SA

10SA

100SA

NNI HC

NNI MC

SPR

Metazoa-10

85.4%

91.4%

91.5%

91.3%

91.5%

91.7%

Metazoa-15

80.3%

84.8%

85.1%

85.3%

85.0%

85.3%

Fungi-15

75.1%

83.4%

83.7%

83.8%

83.5%

83.7%

Proteobacteria-15

71.0%

80.9%

81.5%

80.1%

81.0%

81.1%

Metazoa-25

70.8%

77.4%

78.5%

78.5%

78.8%

78.2%

Fungi-30

50.2%

63.3%

65.8%

65.8%

65.3%

65.5%

Proteobacteria-30

42.5%

55.6%

57.7%

53.8%

57.2%

58.5%

Fungi-45

37.7%

49.1%

49.6%

49.8%

49.7%

52.5%

Proteobacteria-45

31.8%

38.3%

39.9%

43.8%

40.9%

46.0%

  1. Notation is the same as in Table 3