Table 9. Estimated time of divergence between GoM and Atlantic Bathymodiolus species (in MY).
Time of divergence is estimated using the CO1 mutation rate of 0.39% / MY and divergence values from Table 8.
| CO1 divergence | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. brooksi | B. heckerae | B. nov. sp. GoM | B. azoricus | B. puteoserpentis | B. boomerang | B. sp South MAR | |
| B childressi | 18.23 | 18.36 | 17.34 | 18.10 | 18.49 | 17.72 | 16.70 |
| B. brooksi | 15.43 | 14.28 | 15.17 | 15.94 | 14.41 | 14.41 | |
| B. heckerae | 8.16 | 9.94 | 10.20 | 1.40 | 9.18 | ||
| B. nov. sp. GoM | 9.94 | 7.90 | 7.39 | 7.52 | |||
| B. azoricus | 8.41 | 9.94 | 7.14 | ||||
| B. puteoserpentis | 9.43 | 6.76 | |||||
| B. boomerang | 8.16 | ||||||