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. 2005 Jan;95(1):45–90. doi: 10.1093/aob/mci003

Table 1.

The number and percentage (in brackets) of original references with first authors from various geographical areas among the total of 465 sources contributing to the present Appendix table and the six lists of angiosperm DNA amounts previously compiled for reference purposes that were pooled in the Angiosperm DNA C-values database (release 4.0, January 2003)

DNA C-value compilation
Area
19761
19822
19913
19954
19975
20006
Present Appendix
Total
Europe 34 (63·0) 38 (71·7) 30 (53·6) 43 (40·6) 18 (48·6) 38 (51·4) 54 (61·4) 255 (54·8)
UK 28 (51·9) 13 (24·5) 22 (39·3) 23 (21·7) 5 (13·5) 8 (10·8) 10 (11·4) 109 (23·4)
North America 14 (25·9) 11 (20·8) 16 (28·6) 19 (17·9) 5 (13·5) 11 (14·9) 13 (14·8) 89 (19·1)
South and Meso America 0 (0·0) 0 (0·0) 3 (5·4) 9 (8·5) 1 (2·7) 6 (8·1) 2 (2·3) 21 (4·5)
Africa 1 (1·9) 0 (0·0) 0 (0·0) 1 (0·9) 2 (5·4) 1 (1·4) 2 (2·3) 7 (1·5)
Asia 1 (1·9) 3 (5·7) 4 (7·1) 30 (28·3) 11 (29·7) 8 (10·8) 17 (19·3) 74 (15·9)
India 1 (1·9) 1 (1·9) 2 (3·6) 28 (26·4) 11 (29·7) 4 (5·4) 11 (12·5) 58 (12·5)
China 0 (0·0) 0 (0·0) 0 (0·0) 0 (0·0) 0 (0·0) 0 (0·0) 2 (2·3) 2 (0·4)
Australasia 4 (7·4) 1 (1·9) 3 (5·4) 4 (3·8) 0 (0·0) 7 (9·5) 0 (0·0) 19 (4·1)
Australia 4 (7·4) 1 (1·9) 3 (5·4) 1 (0·9) 0 (0·0) 1 (1·4) 0 (0·0) 10 (2·2)
Total 54 53 56 106 37 71 88 465 (100)