| BOLD | Barcode of Life |
| CBC | Compensatory base change |
| GMYC | Generalized mixed Yule-coalescent |
| ITS | Internal transcribed spacers |
| -InL | The negative log-likelihood |
| LRT | Likelihood ratio test |
| MFE | Minimum free energy |
| MSA | Multiple sequence alignments |
| ML | Maximum likelihood |
| MDS | Metric multidimensional scaling |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| NJ | Neighbor Joining |