Table 2 Statistical information on the individual alignments and number of equally most parsimonious trees saved for each dataset analysed¹.

Aligned characters (including gaps)

722

554

530

523

Parsimony-informative characters

192

242

109

45

Variable and parsimony-uninformative characters

55

88

107

143

Constant characters

475

224

314

335

Equally most parsimonious trees obtained

1 000

284

140

16

Tree length

673

1 247

470

249

Consistency index (Cl)

0,551

0,499

0,691

0,912

Retention index (RI)

0,948

0,764

0,832

0,891

Rescaled Consistency index (RC)

0,522

0,381

0,575

0,812