Behavioral Ecology Blog

Is there anyone out there working on a genus level phylogeny of Peromyscus?? It is super annoying that a “super-tree” does not exist…. Argh… I need a tree to proceed with several of the most exciting research questions- and not being a phylogeneticist, the prospects of having to build one myself is slightly daunting..

Anyway- to the right is my feeble 1st stab at it. It is a tree using the whole cytochrome B (~1100bp), MrBayes with 5 million reps. Numbers are bootstrap values. As you can see, even with the “pretty variable” gene, there are several places where resolution is sub-optimal.

The parsimony tree showed similar, although not identical topology. The ML tree is complete, and bootstrapping has been in progress for >96 hours (argh….)