I am currently using Mesquite to read consensus trees produced in PAUP. I am interested in finding out what apomorphy characters hold a certain clade in a tree. I know there is a such called "apolist" in PAUP which shows what apomorphy characters define a particular node in a tree. I was wondering if there is an equivalent function in Mesquite? I have tried "State changes on branches" and a couple of numbers which seem to represent character state changes (e.g. 0-->1, 0-->2, etc) and their fractions do appear in a separate tab. But I can't tell what are the characters and associated states as they all appear as numbers.

The reason I am doing this in mesquite because I was trying to save the apomorphy list from PAUP (where I built the consensus trees) in text file but couldn't see the list when opened in notepad and word document. It is also because I find out that the "trace characters" and "trace character history" functions in mesquite are useful per se.

Thank you in advance.

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