Research Article

Polynomial Supertree Methods Revisited

Table 4

The table shows average numbers of taxa excluded from supertrees build by PhySIC_IST from model trees of 524 taxa. Numbers are shown for different quantities of input trees, different deletion ratios, and different parameters of the STC process (-c option).

No. of input trees 50% deletion 75% deletion
𝑐 = 0 𝑐 = 1 𝑐 = 0 𝑐 = 1

4 150.1 300.5 180 179.2
8 145.2 429.8 269.3 338.1
12 124.8 468.7 299.9 410.9
16 130.3 483.8 314.6 432.6
20 118.4490 307.6 455
24 118.7492.6 307.3 470.4
28 105.7498.7 313.8 478.1
32 96499.1 303.9 483.9
36 96498.7 305.6 485.4
40 81.5502.8 304.6 488.6