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Table 4.

Average silent site divergence and estimated age in million of years (within brackets) for Pyrinae species.

Species comparison		Genes					Average
		trnL–trnF	rbcL	matK1	5–8S ribosomal RNA	rpoC1
Sorbus	Malus	0.0050 (1.63)	0.0	0.0120 (4.03)	0.0643 (9.87)	0.0201 (8.0)	5.88
	Pyrus	0.0140 (4.57)	0.0071 (2.25)	0.006 (2.01)	0.0769 (11.81)	0.0	5.16
Malus	Pyrus	0.0130 (4.25)	0.0071 (2.25)	0.0181 (6.08)	0.0718 (11.02)	0.0201 (8. 0)	6.32
Pyrinae	Prunus	0.09797 (32^a)	0.1009 (32^a)	0.0953 (32^a)	0.2084 (32^a)	0.0804 (32^a)	32

^a The split between the Amygdaloideae and Pyrinae lineages has been estimated to be between 29 and 35 million years ago (Wikstrom et al., 2001); thus, we use the average of these values (32).