Conquering the Sahara and Arabian deserts: systematics and biogeography of Stenodactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)

Table 2 Statistical support for alternative hypotheses on Stenodactylus phylogeny

		ML framework¹		Bayesian framework²
Tree	-log likelihood	AU P	SH P	HME	log₁₀BF
Unconstrained tree	15180.095955			−15175.4907
Monophyly of Stenodactylus+Pseudoceramodactylus	15180.877129	0.461	0.839	−15175.0633	0.647
Monophyly of Tropiocolotes	15183.765511	0.161	0.495	−15175.6215	−0.530
Monophyly of Stenodactylus+Pseudoceramodactylus and Tropiocolotes	15183.696084	0.153	0.492	−15177.9132	1.589
Monophyly of African species	15192.711115	0.029	0.123	−15190.3457	7.221
Monophyly of S. petrii	15189.220967	0.036	0.210	−15181.4116	2.578

All topological tests are done versus the unconstrained (best) tree. Values in bold indicate statistically significant results.
¹ML: Maximum likelihood; AU: Approximately Unbiased test (Shimodaira, 2002); SH: Shimodaira & Hasegawa (1999) test. P < 0.05 suggests that the two solutions are significantly different.
²HME: The harmonic mean of sampled likelihoods as estimated by Tracer. BF: Bayes Factor. A log₁₀ Bayes factor > 2 indicates decisive evidence for statistically significant difference between solutions.

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