Analysis of Phylogenetic Trees

We hypothesized that Asian Lily and Day lily would be more closely related because of their pollen morphology similarities (monocolpates and reticulate-like surfaces.) In contrast, the Calla Lily was inaperturate and had a psilate surface. Our hypothetical tree disagreed with our protein-sequence-based phylogeny tree. The protein sequence showed that the Calla Lily and the Asian Lily were more closely related. This discrepancy between our research and the unipro tree makes us question the validity of the information we obtained from unipro. In addition, the unipro did not have a protein sequence for the Asian Lily; consequently, a protein sequence of its subspecies was used. To check our results, we researched the origins of each lily and discovered that the Asian Lily and Day Lily both originate in Asia, whereas the Calla Lily originates in Africa. Since the results we got from the unipro was again inconclusive with our data and research, we hypothesize that the protein-sequence-based phylogeny tree is wrong.