Table 3. Base composition and related statistics (skewness evaluation) for protein-coding genes and ribosomal regions of the mtDNA ofParagonimus ohiraiand otherParagonimusspecies, and means and standard deviations of base composition of all species included in the study.

Sequence		Length(nt)*	A	T	G	C	A+T	AT-skew	G+C	GC-skew
Protein-coding	Pohi-Kinosaki-JP	10,104	17.00	46.00	26.17	10.83	63.00	−0.46	37.00	0.41
	Pwes(2n)-Haenam-KR	10,101	13.40	38.21	30.61	17.77	51.61	−0.48	48.39	0.26
	Pwes(3n)-Bogil-KR	10,101	13.33	38.25	30.61	17.81	51.58	−0.48	48.42	0.26
	Pwes-TypeI-IN	10,104	14.89	40.50	29.36	15.25	55.39	−0.46	44.61	0.32
	Pwes-AP-IN	10,140	14.72	40.40	29.58	15.30	55.12	−0.46	44.88	0.32
	Phet_China	10,101	14.93	43.91	28.18	12.98	58.84	−0.49	41.16	0.37
	Pkell	10,098	15.19	44.78	27.73	12.30	59.97	−0.49	40.30	0.38
Mean, all included species			17.58	46.04	25.91	10.41	63.64	−0.45	36.38	0.43
S.D. all included species			3.5	2.86	2.85	2.49	4.93	0.07	4.91	0.07
Ribosomal RNA coding	Pohi-Kinosaki-JP	1,710	22.92	37.19	26.90	12.98	60.01	−0.23	39.99	0.35
	Pwes(2n)-Haenam-KR	1,732	19.11	32.62	31.12	17.15	51.73	−0.26	48.27	0.29
	Pwes(3n)-Bogil-KR	1,732	18.94	32.79	31.29	16.97	51.73	−0.27	48.27	0.30
	Pwes-TypeI-IN	1,729	20.24	35.11	29.84	14.81	55.35	−0.27	44.65	0.34
	Pwes-AP-IN	1,721	20.22	34.63	30.16	14.99	54.85	−0.26	45.15	0.34
	Phet China	1,711	20.81	37.05	28.23	13.91	57.86	−0.28	42.14	0.34
	Pkell	1,711	21.33	37.52	27.47	13.68	58.85	−0.28	41.15	0.33

Notes.

Pohi

Paragonimus ohirai

Pwes

P. westermani

Phet

P. heterotremus

Pkell

P. kellicotti.

JP

Japan

KR

South Korea

IN

India.

Kinosaki

Kinosaki locality, Japan

AP

Arunachal Pradesh locality, India (see Table S1)

High A and T nucleotide use (17.00% and 46.00%) in P. ohirai is bolded. S.D. standard deviation nt nucleotide.

^aThe overlap between nad4L and nad4 is counted twice in this calculation.