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Fig. 2

From: Mind the gap! The mitochondrial control region and its power as a phylogenetic marker in echinoids

Fig. 2

Pairwise tree comparisons for phylogenetic trees based on commonly used mitochondrial markers. Trees include the two most commonly used phylogenetic mitochondrial markers: a fragment of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (a) gene and a fragment of the 16S ribosomal RNA (c) as well as the novel tRNAs and control region (e). To facilitate independent comparisons, the genetically inferred trees were restricted to the 35 publicly available complete echinoid mitochondrial genomes. Genera represented by more than one species were collapsed and are depicted by single branches. Supporting values (> 0.85 posterior probabilities and > 75% ML bootstrap values) are shown next to nodes. Topological comparisons between the genetically inferred trees and current classification (b, d, f) (see text for details) were visualised using Phylo.io [62]. Colour scale for the comparison metric (a variant of the Jaccard Index as implemented in Phylo.io) ranges from 0 (subtrees completely different) to 1 (subtree structure of the respective node is identical)

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