Conferticium-Maximum-Likelihood-tree

Figure: Molecular Phylogenetic analysis of Conferticium by the Maximum Likelihood method
The evolutionary history was inferred by using the Maximum Likelihood method based on the Kimura 2-parameter model [1]. The tree with the highest log likelihood (-4339.3053) is shown. The percentage of trees in which the associated taxa clustered together is shown next to the branches. A user-specified tree was used as an initial tree in the heuristic search. A discrete Gamma distribution was used to model evolutionary rate differences among sites (5 categories (+G, parameter = 0.1405)). The rate variation model allowed for some sites to be evolutionarily invariable ([+I], 62.4869% sites). The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths measured in the number of substitutions per site. The analysis involved 20 nucleotide sequences. All positions with less than 95% site coverage were eliminated. That is, fewer than 5% alignment gaps, missing data, and ambiguous bases were allowed at any position. There were a total of 1193 positions in the final dataset. Evolutionary analyses were conducted in MEGA6 [2]

1. Kimura M. (1980). A simple method for estimating evolutionary rate of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution 16:111-120.
2. Tamura K., Stecher G., Peterson D., Filipski A., and Kumar S. (2013). MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 6.0. Molecular Biology and Evolution30: 2725-2729.

List of GenBank-Sequences

• Conferticium ochraceum AF506383
• Conferticium ravum AF506382
• Acanthophysellum lividocoeruleum
• Aleurodiscus cerussatus AF506399
• Xylobolus frustulatus strain AF506491
• Gloeomyces graminicola AF506448
• Stereum rugosum AF506481
• Gloeocystidiellum heimii AF506381
• Stereum hirsutum AF506479
• subtomentosum AF506482
• Stereum reflexulum AF506480
• Gloeocystidiellum triste AF506442
• Megalocystidium luridum AF506422
• Aleurobotrys botryosus AF506398
• Gloeocystidiopsis flammea AF506437
• Megalocystidium leucoxanthum AF506420
• Gloeocystidiellum wakullum AF506443
• Aleurodiscus amorphus AF506397
• Gloeodontia discolor AF506445
• Gloeodontia pyramidata AF506446