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. 2015 May 4;10(5):e0125574. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125574

Table 1. Sequence characteristics of six DNA regions of Schisandraceae (Outgroup taxon excluded).

ITS1 ITS2 ITS trnH-psbA matK rbcL
Universality of primers - - Yes Yes Yes Yes
Percentage PCR success (%) - - 98.19 100 100 99.09
Percentage sequencing success (%) - - 100 100 100 100
No. of species (no. of individuals) 33 (123) 33 (123) 33 (123) 33 (114) 33 (114) 32 (118)
No. of singleton species 1 1 1 8 5 5
Aligned sequence length (bp) 299 229 695 579 826 672
Parsimony-informative sites (bp) 98 67 170 85 60 27
Variable sites (bp) 104 77 188 94 65 29
No. of indels (length range) 26 (1–23) 9 (1–2) 36 (1–23) 41 (1–46) 2 (6) 0
Average interspecific distance (range) (%) 1 15.09 (0–29.47) 10.75 (0–21.65) 9.88 (0–19.08) 6.96 (0–14.12) 2.84 (0–5.91) 1.41 (0–2.80)
Average intraspecific distance (range) (%) 1 0.15 (0–0.51) 0.28 (0–2.70) 0.17 (0–1.10) 0. 09 (0–0.84) 0.04 (0–0.34) 0.02 (0–0.11)
Average interspecific distance (range) (%) 2 3.28 (0–6.98) 3.16 (0–5.96) 2.47 (0–4.87) 2.44 (0–7.05) 0.86 (0–1.85) 0.66 (0–1.19)
Average intraspecific distance (range) (%) 2 0.15 (0–0.51) 0.10 (0–0.71) 0.11 (0–0.30) 0.15 (0–0.84) 0.06 (0–0.34) 0.03 (0–0.11)
Average interspecific distance (range) (%) 3 2.10 (0–4.73) 1.74 (0–4.05) 1.47 (0–2.86) 1.04 (0–2.26) 0.13 (0–0.49) 0.13 (0–0.30)
Average intraspecific distance (range) (%) 3 0.13 (0–0.41) 0.54 (0–2.70) 0.26 (0–1.10) 0.02 (0–0.13) 0 0.01 (0–0.10)

1The distance based on the data from Schisandraceae.

2The distance based on the data from Schisandra and Kadsura.

3The distance based on the data from Illicium.