Figure 1

Phylogenetic relationships of African mastacembelid eels inferred from the concatenated mtDNA and ncDNA datasets. A) The consensus of the ML and BI trees, with support from bootstrap generated from ML and Bayesian posterior probability (BPP), above and below branches respectively (shown for nodes with greater than 50% support only). Key nodes are labelled A-G, with the blue box highlighting LT species. B) Phylogram based on Bayesian analysis of concatenated data set (mtDNA and ncDNA) to depict branch lengths. M., Mastacembelus; Mg., Macrognathus. Generic classification following Travers [21, 23] represent Aethiomastacembelus (*) and Caecomastacembelus (^). Pictures are reproduced from Eccles [96].