Table 3. Resolutive power of 18SrDNA versus mitochondrial markers.

					18S rDNA				mitochondrial
Taxonomic group	Dataset reference	BOLD project name	nb of seqs	nb of species	seq length (bp)	nb of sp. sharing a sequence	pairwise intrageneric distances in the dataset	pairwise intergeneric distances in the dataset	Marker name: seq length (bp)	nb of sp. sharing a sequence	pairwise intrageneric distances in the dataset	Pairwise intergeneric distances in the dataset
Lepidoptera	[31]	LGC	70	68	655	20	0–0.65	0–1.43	COI: 655	0	4.28–12.68	4.59–15.44
Amphibia	[30]	CBAM	81	14	570	7	0	0–1.09	COI: 655	2	0–20.38	14.97–21.92
Ascidiacea	[29]	ASCAN	30	22	800	6	0–11.12	0–9.74	COI: 550	0	0.17–34.29	6.53–26.74
Nematoda	[33]		15	7	1708	3	0–1.07	0.06–1.13	12S: 499	0	0–12.37	7.5–25.9
Teleostei	[32]		160	71	1800	14	0–1.33	0–1.39	12S: 390	0	0–12.56

Only specimens for which both markers were available were included in the comparison. The values are min-max of the pairwise divergences. Intergeneric distances are calculated on specimens belonging to the same family.