Figure 1

Hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships among Mustelidae subfamilies. Trees were reconstructed based on (a) 46 morphological characters [8], (b) analyses of 21 nuclear genes and 1 mt gene [5], (c) analyses of 5 nuclear genes and 1 mt gene [10] (support values are indicated above the line) and 25 nuclear genes and mt genome [13] (support values are indicated below the line), (d) analyses of 5 nuclear genes [4] (support values are indicated above the line) [12] support values are indicated below the line), (e) supertree analyses of 5 nuclear genes [4].