Rj. Masongamer et Ea. Kellogg, TESTING FOR PHYLOGENETIC CONFLICT AMONG MOLECULAR-DATA SETS IN THE TRIBE TRITICEAE (GRAMINEAE), Systematic biology, 45(4), 1996, pp. 524-545
Four molecular data sets are available for the diploid intersterile ge
nera of the cereal grain tribe Triticeae, and there are numerous diffe
rences among the four published trees. All six pairwise combinations o
f data sets were examined using tree comparisons, the incongruence len
gth difference test, the Wilcoxon signed ranks test, and a permutation
test. We describe some advantages, disadvantages, and properties of t
he different comparison methods. Test results provide no evidence for
significant differences in the phylogenetic signal among the three nuc
lear data sets, with the exception of the placement of a single taxon.
The chloroplast DNA restriction site data, however, support a signifi
cantly different tree, and the differences probably reflect a separate
evolutionary history of the chloroplast genome.