Table 2. Net evolutionary divergence (i.e. the number of base differences per site from estimation of net average between groups of sequences) between Artemia species/lineages estimated by MEGA 4.0.

	A. parthenogenetica	A. sp. (DQ119653)	A. sp. (KAZSEX)	A. urmiana	A. tibetiana	A. sinica	A. franciscana
A. parthenogenetica	—	0.000	0.014	0.021	0.056	0.191	0.214
A. sp. (DQ119653)	0.000	—	0.014	0.021	0.057	0.192	0.215
A. sp. (KAZSEX)	0.014	0.014	—	0.009	0.048	0.196	0.204
A. urmiana	0.020	0.020	0.009	—	0.051	0.195	0.203
A. tibetiana	0.052	0.053	0.044	0.047	—	0.155	0.169
A. sinica	0.162	0.163	0.166	0.165	0.133	—	0.183
A. franciscana	0.181	0.182	0.173	0.173	0.146	0.159	—

Lower matrix p-distances, upper matrix corrected K-2P distances. A. sp.: undescribed sexual Artemia. DQ119653: Haplotype from the sexual isolate from Kazakhstan reported by Hou et al. [29]. KAZSEX: Haplotypes of sexual Artemia sp. from Kazakhstan obtained in this study (see Table 1).