Consensus Network for Human Mitochondrial DNA

This is a consensus network showing all splits in the 80 equally parsimonious trees resulting from a heuristic search on an alignment of 53 human mitochondrial genomes. The network corresponds to z = 0. This means that it is unnecessary to compute a greedy network as the relevant information is summarized in a single figure. The second example is a data set consisting of 80 trees resulted from a heuristic search for the most parsimonious tree for a set of 53 sequences of human mitochondrial DNA. The phylogenetic software package PAUP [22] was used to search for the maximum parsimony tree, (using the default options Swap TBR, AddSeq=Simple). All splits appearing in the 80 equally parsimonious trees are shown, making it unnecessary to compute a greedy network. As we see, rather than sifting through the 80 trees to try and identify similarities and differences, the relevant information is summarized in a single figure.