Table 2.

Estimates of evolutionary divergence between sequences and highly similar sequence. SSU rDNA gene sequence genetic distances (lower triangle) and similarities (upper triangle) among seven sequences

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
M. ampullicapsulatus CQLg	–	100 %	100 %	99 %	99 %	98 %	99 %
M. ampullicapsulatus JXa.a	0.002	–	100 %	99 %	100 %	98 %	99 %
M. ampullicapsulatus CQYa.a	0.003	0.001	–	99 %	99 %	98 %	98 %
M. ampullicapsulatus HBa.a	0.005	0.003	0.002	–	99 %	98 %	98 %
M. ampullicapsulatus CQYg	0.002	0.000	0.001	0.003	–	98 %	99 %
M. ampullicapsulatus JSa.g	0.015	0.014	0.016	0.016	0.014	–	99 %
M. honghuensis HBa.g	0.014	0.013	0.014	0.015	0.013	0.001	–

1 M. ampullicapsulatus CQLg, 2 M. ampullicapsulatus JXa.a, 3 M. ampullicapsulatus CQYa.a, 4 M. ampullicapsulatus HBa.a, 5 M. ampullicapsulatus CQYg, 6 M. ampullicapsulatus JSa.g, 7 M. honghuensis HBa.g