The origin of multicellularity in cyanobacteria

Table 2 Different Transition rates with whom ancestral character states were estimated.

method rates	Maximum likelihood analysis								Bayesian analysis
	AsymmMK¹	MK1²	F1³	F2	F3	F4	F5	F6	rjhp⁴
fw ⁵	1.62	2.67	0.90	2.70	5.40	0.45	0.90	2.70	2.881
bw ⁶	2.99	2.67	2.70	0.90	0.45	5.40	0.90	2.70	2.873

¹Asymmetrical Markov k-state 2 parameter model; rates estimated from the consensus tree
²Markov k-state 1 parameter model; rates estimated from the consensus tree
³F1-F6: Models using different fixed transition rates
⁴reversible jump for model selection, using a hyper prior
⁵forward rate describing changes to multicellularity
⁶backward rate describing changes back to a unicellular state

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