Table 3.
Identification efficacy of DNA barcodes using distance based methods. F = False and T = True.
| DNA region | Near Neighbour | BOLD (1%) | Best Close Match | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F (%) | T (%) | Ambiguous (%) | Correct (%) | Incorrect (%) | No ID (%) | Ambiguous (%) | Correct (%) | Incorrect (%) | No ID (%) | |
| rbcLa | 59 | 41 | 61 | 18 | 14 | 7 | 61 | 18 | 14 | 7 |
| matK | 46 | 54 | 81 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 47 | 38 | 14 | 1 |
| trnH-psbA | 72 | 28 | 65 | 22 | 10 | 3 | 18 | 60 | 18 | 4 |
| nrITS | 35 | 65 | 29 | 47 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 63 | 19 | 8 |
| rbcLa+matK | 39 | 61 | 86 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 35 | 51 | 12 | 2 |
| rbcLa+matK+trnH-psbA | 38 | 62 | 79 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 80 | 8 | 6 |
| rbcLa+matK+nrITS | 43 | 57 | 62 | 30 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 70 | 19 | 8 |
| rbcLa+matK+nrITS+trnH-psbA | 36 | 64 | 52 | 41 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 87 | 9 | 4 |