I am working on some sequences from five different region ITS, IGS, MatK and XTH of two plant genera
I have built phylogenetic trees using Maximum parsimony and Maximum Likelihood method by MEGA 5.0. I have already done statistical analysis:mostly Friedman Test by SPSS to compare those trees result came as expected.
Now I like to have an explanation about their evolutionary origin and relationship and that's where I am kind of stuck. I just can't realize how to do that. Can anyone here help about that?
That's pretty vage, but if you would like to test some hypotheses or origin or adaptation, you should use independent variables (phenotypic, anatomical, physiological, ecological, etc) to do it.
If there is any clear-cut transition of habitats between clades, you could infer that some major change happened there, but that is not accurately testing anything.
If you want to talk about evolutionary origin, you should go back to the biology of the groups. There is no magic-pill.
That's pretty vage, but if you would like to test some hypotheses or origin or adaptation, you should use independent variables (phenotypic, anatomical, physiological, ecological, etc) to do it.
If there is any clear-cut transition of habitats between clades, you could infer that some major change happened there, but that is not accurately testing anything.
If you want to talk about evolutionary origin, you should go back to the biology of the groups. There is no magic-pill.
You can't build a tree from two of anything, so I am assuming you have several species in each Genus. Do you also have another Genus for an outgroup? What types of plants?
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