Microbial phylogeny

Tree legitimacy test in which multiple potential trees are analysed and the probablity of a branch appearing is tested.

Large bacterial group which includes Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Method of tree building where differences between pairs of aligned sequences are counted and used as a single statistic

Large bacterial group which includes Vibro cholerae

Tree legitimacy test in which a random set of data is selected and tested for its % anlyses in which branch it was found in. A value above 70% supports the tree

A tree used to infer evolutionary relatedness

Large bacterial group which includes Staphylococcus aureas

Method of tree building which uses assumptions about evolution