Weighted compromise trees: a method to summarize competing phylogenetic hypotheses |
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| Authors: | Michael J Sharkey Stephanie Stoelb Daniel R Miranda‐Esquivel Barabara J Sharanowski |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Kentucky, Department of Entomology, S225 Agricultural Science Center North, Lexington, KY 40546‐0091, USA;2. Laboratorio de Sistemática y Biogeografía, Escuela de Biología, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia;3. University of Manitoba, Department of Entomology, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2N |
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| Abstract: | A new consensus method for summarizing competing phylogenetic hypotheses, weighted compromise, is described. The method corrects for a bias inherent in majority‐rule consensus/compromise trees when the source trees exhibit non‐independence due to ambiguity in terminal clades. Suggestions are given for its employment in parsimony analyses and tree resampling strategies such as bootstrapping and jackknifing. An R function is described that can be used with the programming language R to produce the consensus. |
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