Alignment between taxonomy and phylogeny in various clades of the tree of life
| Clade | Tips | Internal nodes | Nodes supported by | ||
| Taxonomy | Trees | Trees + taxonomy | |||
| Bacteria | 260,323 | 11,028 | 8,454 (76.7%) | 2,184 (19.8%) | 390 (3.5%) |
| Cyanobacteria | 10,581 | 788 | 678 (86.0%) | 83 (10.5%) | 27 (3.4%) |
| Ciliates | 1,497 | 657 | 654 (99.5%) | 1 (0.2%) | 2 (0.3%) |
| Nematoda | 31,287 | 3,504 | 3,431 (97.9%) | 54 (1.5%) | 19 (0.5%) |
| Chlorophytes | 13,100 | 1,267 | 1,239 (97.8%) | 20 (1.6%) | 8 (0.6%) |
| Rhodophytes | 12,214 | 1,292 | 1,278 (98.9%) | 14 (1.1%) | 0 |
| Fungi | 296,667 | 8,646 | 8,243 (95.3%) | 383 (4.4%) | 20 (0.2%) |
| Insecta | 941,753 | 88,666 | 85,936 (96.9%) | 2,205 (2.5%) | 525 (0.6%) |
| Chordata | 88,434 | 27,315 | 13,374 (49.0%) | 11,689 (42.8%) | 2,250 (8.2%) |
| Primates | 681 | 501 | 129 (25.7%) | 294 (58.7%) | 78 (15.6%) |
| Mammals | 9,539 | 4,433 | 1,645 (37.1%) | 2,194 (49.5%) | 594 (13.4%) |
| Embryophytes | 284,447 | 32,211 | 22,400 (69.5%) | 8,533 (26.5%) | 1,271 (3.9%) |