Table 2.
Alignment properties and nucleotide substitution models per locus1 and combined.
| ITS | GPDH | TEF | Combined ITS, GPDH and TEF | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of characters included in analysis (including gaps) | 509 | 496 | 899 | 1908 |
| Number of constant characters | 426 | 354 | 799 | 1561 |
| Number of parsimony informative characters (%) | 52 (10 %) | 96 (19 %) | 55 (6 %) | 214 (11 %) |
| Number of uninformative and variable characters | 31 | 46 | 45 | 133 |
| Nucleotide substitution model | HKY + I + G | GTR + G | GTR + I + G | GTR + I + G |
1
ITS: internal transcribed spacers and intervening 5.8S nrDNA; GPDH: partial glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene; TEF: partial translation elongation factor 1-alpha gene.