Table 4.

Estimated date of separation of the major clades of the Carassius auratus-complex.

	Based on cyt b sequences (1141 bp)		Based on NPRS tree of the concatenated sequences of all four regions (4669 bp)
Cladogenetic event	Average P distances	Branching date (Mya) estimated from the molecular clock (1.52%/My) obtained by Zardoya and Doardio [39]	Branching date (Mya) estimated from the fossil record of Carassius cuvieri
Between superclades A and B	0.061	4.01	0.39
Within superclade A
Between clade I and clades II+III	0.029	1.91	0.20
Between clades II and III	0.027	1.78	0.17
Within superclade B
Between clade VI and clades IV+V+VII	0.020	1.32	0.21
Between clade V and clades IV+VII	0.017	1.12	0.19
Between clade IV and VII	0.015	0.99	0.17