Figure 4

Phylogenetic trees of chelicerate relationships, inferred from nucleotide (upper) and amino acid (lower) datasets. All protein coding gene sequences were aligned and concatenated; ambiguously aligned regions were omitted by Gblocks. Trees were rooted with outgroup taxa (Lithobius, Daphnia, Penaeus). Topologies and branch lengths were taken from the best scoring trees of the maximum likelihood (ML) analyses. Numbers behind the branching points are percentages from ML bootstrapping (left), Bayesian posterior probabilities (BPP, middle) and maximum parsimony bootstrap percentages (MP, right). Stars indicate that values are 100 (ML), 1.0 (BI) and 100 (MP). See Table 2 for accession numbers.