Research Article

Polynomial Supertree Methods Revisited

Table 1

The table shows average numbers of taxa excluded from supertrees build by PhySIC_IST from model trees of 48 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 25% deletion 50% deletion 75% deletion
𝑐 = 0 𝑐 = 1 𝑐 = 0 𝑐 = 1 𝑐 = 0 𝑐 = 1

2 4.534.53 3.77 3.77 4.91 4.91
4 0.835.6 7.29 12.22 10.2 10.23
6 0.362.17 5.36 13.96 15.39 15.41
8 0.231.45 3.77 11.26 18.89 19.9
10 0.134.23 2.69 8.66 22.13 23.22
12 0.171.38 2 7.49 23.15 24.65
14 0.161.62 1.48 4.94 25.76 27.18
16 0.072.22 1.08 4.44 25.35 27.43
18 0.162.05 1.1 4.17 25.52 28.87
20 0.052.34 0.89 3.15 26.41 28.64