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Table S3. Models of evolution estimated for each gene and codon position with PARTITIONFINDER 2. The models listed were used for each data partition in a Bayesian analysis.

Table S4. Confidence interval (CI) of the values generated by the maximum likelihood method in STABLETRAITS.