Table 1.
Sequence characteristics of the five DNA barcode loci evaluated in this study.
| Parameters assessed | DNA barcode locus | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rbcL | matK | psbA-trnH | ITS | ITS2 | |
| Number of individuals | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 |
| PCR Success (%) | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Sequencing success (%) | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Sequence length (bp) | 676 | 751 | 376 | 663–666 | 400 |
| Aligned length (bp) | 676 | 751 | 380 | 679 | 406 |
| No. of variable sites | 12 | 15 | 29 | 94 | 55 |
| No. of indels | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 6 |
| No. of Parsimony informative sites | 11 | 12 | 13 | 80 | 54 |
| Pairwise identity (%) | 99.4 | 99.3 | 98.2 | 95.8 | 95.5 |