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 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Area |
19761 |
19822 |
19913 |
19954 |
19975 |
20006 |
Present Appendix |
Total |
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| 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) | ||||||