Maximum Likelihood -Tree-of-Aleurobotrys and related Taxa

Figure. Figure. Molecular Phylogenetic analysis of Aleurobotrys and related Taxa by 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 (-3361.7056) 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 = 0.5290)). The rate variation model allowed for some sites to be evolutionarily invariable ([+I], 69.0768% 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 1171 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 with GenBank Sequences

• Stereum hirsutum AF506479
• Stereum subtomentosum AF506482
• Stereum reflexulum AF506480
• Stereum rugosum AF506481
• Aleurodiscus lividocoeruleus AF506400
• Xylobolus frustulatus AF506491
• Conferticium ravum AF506382
• Gloeocystidiellum heimii AF506381
• Gloeocystidiellum triste AF506442
• Gloeocystidiopsis aff. flamma AF506438
• Gloeocystidiopsis flammea AF506437
• Aleurobotrys botryosus AF506398
• Aleurodiscus dextrinoideocerussatus AF506401
• Aleurodiscus cerussatus AF506399
• Gloeomyces graminicola AF506448
• Boidinia macrospora AF506377
• Gloeocystidiellum aspellum AF506432
• Gloeocystidiellum compactum AF506434
• Aleurodiscus amorphus AF506397
• Lactarius volemus AF506414