Chapter 9 Results

9.1 What does your tree tell you?

Use the following guide to begin to understand your research results:

• Describe your hypothesis and a potential alternative. Draw from your introduction. Include both the potential phylogenetic hypotheses based on prior research and morphological results that would suggest.

• Explain how your results support or contradict your phylogenetic hypotheses. Your description may include more than one set of relationships. If relevant explain how your results support / contradict your morphological hypotheses.

• Explain how your results support or contradict prior results from other papers.

• How can future research build on these observations?

• What is your general conclusion from your results?