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Table 2 Statistical comparisons of the best neighbor-joining tree with the hypothesis 1 and hypothesis 2 trees

From: The rhomboids: a nearly ubiquitous family of intramembrane serine proteases that probably evolved by multiple ancient horizontal gene transfers

Kishino-Hasegawa test

Tree

Length

Length difference

SD (difference)

t

p*

Best

4951

-

   

Hypothesis 1

4966

15

11.9

1.26

0.211

Hypothesis 2

4974

23

10.8

2.12

0.036

Templeton (Wilcoxon signed-ranks) test

Tree

Length

Rank sums

N

z

p*

Best

4951

-

   

Hypothesis 1

4966

1418.0

69

-1.33

0.185

  

-997.0

   

Hypothesis 2

4974

1244.5

62

-1.97

0.048

  

-708.5

   

Winning-sites (sign) test

Tree

Length

Counts

p*

  

Best

4951

    

Hypothesis 1

4966

36

0.810

  
  

-33

   

Hypothesis 2

4974

40

0.031

  
  

-22

   
  1. *Probability of getting a more extreme test statistic under the null hypothesis of no difference between the two trees (two-tailed test).