Research Article

Polynomial Supertree Methods Revisited

Table 2

The table shows average numbers of taxa excluded from supertrees build by PhySIC_IST from model trees of 96 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 13.8713.87 8.72 8.72 9.04 9.04
4 0.913.31 12.13 26.47 21.73 22.22
6 0.524.79 9.17 35.62 30.11 33.29
8 0.262.83 6.15 33.17 39.94 40.94
10 0.194.23 4.72 22.8 42.12 49.17
12 0.235.08 3.29 19.07 41.57 54.71
14 0.214.31 2.51 12.34 41.43 55.8
16 0.184.62 1.78 11.94 42.31 59.45
18 0.115.88 1.43 10.32 39.69 60.12
20 0.165.56 0.16 8.7 37.95 62.09