Table 2 Statistical comparisons between the best ML tree and alternative phylogenetic hypotheses within podopean copepods

((SI, HA), CY)

Huys and Boxshall (1991) [5], Ho (1994) [12], Huys et al. (2006) [19], Minxiao et al. (2011) [23], and Tung et al. (2014) [21]

177,619.7

0.109

0.479

0.085*

((SI, CY), HA)

Kabata (1979) [68], Ho (1990) [11], and Dahms (2004) [14]

177,399.7

0.377

0.750

0.445

((HA, CY), SI)

none

177,631

<0.001***

<0.001***

<0.001***