Table 2.
Performance of four DNA fragments used for species identification of ticks based on their sequences identification success rates using four different methods
| Gene | No. of sequences |
NN |
BLASTn |
Liberal tree-based |
Liberal tree-based (+threshold) |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identified sequences | Rates | Identified sequences | Rates | Identified sequences | Rates | Identified sequences | Rates | ||
|
COI |
439 |
431 |
98.18% |
430 |
97.95% |
409 |
93.17% |
403 |
91.80% |
|
16S |
820 |
799 |
97.44% |
786 |
95.85% |
742 |
90.49% |
732 |
89.27% |
|
ITS2 |
394 |
379 |
96.19% |
381 |
96.70% |
374 |
94.92% |
372 |
94.42% |
| 12S | 765 | 749 | 97.91% | 751 | 98.17% | 706 | 92.29% | 698 | 91.24% |