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. 2012 Sep 11;12:177. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-177

Table 5.

Published arthropod substitution rate estimates for the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI)

Reference Taxon Corrected pairwise distance (%) Per lineage rate, (subst./site/my)
Caccone and Sbordoni [95]
Ovobathysciola cave beetles
1.2
0.006
Caccone and Sbordoni [95]
Speonornus cave beetles
1.3
0.0065
Farrell [19]
Tetraopes beetles
1.5
0.0075
Juan et al. [96]
Pimelia beetles, Canary Is.
1.3
0.0065
Knowlton and Weigt [20], Morrison et al. [97]
Alpheus snapping shrimp
1.4
0.007
Papadopoulou et al. [25]
Tenebrionid beetle genera (6)
3.54
0.0177
Schubart et al. [98]
Sesarma land crabs #1
1.28, 1.9
0.0064, 0.0095
Sota and Hayashi [85] Plateumaris leaf beetles 1.6 0.008

Although these distances were reported as percentages in the papers referenced, a common practice, this is not ideal for corrected distances since the values can exceed 100%.