Table 4 PCR amplification size, phylogenetic data and the substitution models used in the phylogenetic analysis for each gene region and for the combined datasets

Approximate amplicon size (bp)

550

520

420

760

940

–

Number of taxa analysed

153

147

111

91

105

76

Aligned characters (bp)

734

586

440

785

929

3344

Number of parsimony-uninformative characters

621

143

357

519

538

2438

Number of parsimony-informative characters

114

423

82

266

371

1121

Number of trees retained

108

396

1

2448

420

100

Consistency index

0.865

0.499

0.739

0.791

0.738

0.607

Homoplasy index

0.135

0.501

0.261

0.209

0.262

0.393

Rescaled consistency index

0.850

0.459

0.703

0.748

0.696

0.555

Retention index

0.982

0.919

0.951

0.946

0.943

0.914

Tree Length

163

1675

138

546

722

2642

Substitution model

TPM2uf + G

GTR + G

GTR + G

TVM + G

TrN + G

GTR + G