Consensus Tree

The MP method produces many equally parsimonious trees. Choosing this command produces a composite tree that is a consensus among all such trees, for example, either as a strict consensus, in which all conflicting branching patterns among the trees are resolved by making those nodes multifurcating or as a Majority-Rule consensus, in which conflicting branching patterns are resolved by selecting the pattern seen in more than 50% of the trees.

(Details are given in Nei and Kumar [2000], page 130).