Consistency and retention indices (CI and RI) and phylogenetic signal (Blomberg’s K) of the different types of characters in Tree A (i.e., tree resultant from the analysis of the combined morphological and molecular information). CI and RI were calculated for the additive characters as the mean of each of their sub-character indices; bars indicate standard errors. A Indices of the main types of characters. B Indices of the different sub-character types in comparison to the other additive, binary, and multistate characters in the matrix.