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. 2012 Mar 15;7(3):e28987. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028987

Table 2. Summary of K2P distances for increasing taxonomic levels. Data are from 2276 sequences from 668 species and 265 genera (SI Appendix S2). Comparisons within species based on the 514 species with N>1.

Comparisons within Taxa Number of individuals (N) Comparisons Min Mean Max SE
Species 514 2122 4784 0 1.06 22.16 0.03
Genus, among species 217 2228 28849 0.15 15.34 31.57 0.03
Family, among genera 70 2267 112978 1.87 20.55 33.10 0.01
Order, among families 14 2270 1341805 5.42 23.20 34.54 <0.01
Class, among orders 2 2276 1080131 14.62 24.110 39.15 <0.01