Support for alternative bdelloid roots and major bdelloid and syndermate clades from various phylogenetic analyses.

Strategy indicates 1) method of inference (ML, maximum likelihood; MB, Bayesian inference in MrBayes; PB, Bayesian inference in Phylobayes; MP, maximum parsimony), 2) model of substitution (JTT, MtRev, Mixed, and WAG, empirical amino acid models; CAT, site heterogeneous model of Phylobayes with Poisson or GTR exchange profiles), 3) and other data manipulation techniques (partitioned, alignment partitioned by proteins sharing the same model of evolution; recoded, alignments Dayhoff-recoded). The bootstrap support values and posterior probabilities for bdelloid roots as well as bdelloid and syndermate major clades recovered from these analyses are provided (P, others − bdelloid root between Philodina and others; M, others − bdelloid root between Macrotrachela and others; RHM − Rotaria, Habrotrocha, Macrotrachela clade; HAP – Habrotrocha, Adineta, Philodina clade; PRA − Philodina, Rotaria, Adineta clade; HRA − Habrotrocha, Rotaria, Adineta clade; Eurotatoria, support for Bdelloidea + Monogononta; Lemniscea, support for Bdelloidea + Acanthocephala. There are two values listed for each syndermate analysis, regular type indicates results from the Syndermata + Platyhelminthes dataset and boldface indicates results from the Syndermata + Chaetognatha dataset. lnL, log-likelihoods.