Research Article

Polynomial Supertree Methods Revisited

Table 3

The table shows average numbers of taxa excluded from supertrees build by PhySIC_IST from model trees of 144 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 30.62 30.6 15.59 15.59 11.41 11.41
4 2.2 36.8 18.74 53.2 31.67 34.04
6 1.52 12.24 13.8 67.92 48.41 55.25
8 1.75 8.1 10.6 58.8 57.18 70.5
10 1.766.23 7.13 48.53 64.1 86.8
12 1.547.17 4.77 38.61 61.28 95.15
14 1.647.26 4.07 28.72 63.2 99.17
16 1.59.96 3.21 22.62 62.26 103.78
18 1.69.94 2.91 16.35 57.4 104.02
20 2.219.11 2.86 17.46 59.57 105.81