Table 1.
Levels of genetic divergence among genetic lineages for each of the six endemic species of Collembola from SVL, the QAR, and the QMM
| No. SVL sequences | No. QAR−QMM sequences | No. genetic lineages | Mean p distance (658 bp), % | |||
| Uncorrected | K2P | TN93+G | ||||
| A. subpolaris | — | 42 (36) | 3 | 11.7 to 13.9 | 12.9 to 16.2 | 14.5 to 19.0 |
| B. sudpolaris | — | 35 (34) | 1 | — | — | — |
| T. mediantarctica | — | 50 (50) | 1 | — | — | — |
| G. hodgsoni | 662 | 12 (12) | 4 | 5.7 to 7.9 | 6.0 to 8.4 | 6.5 to 9.4 |
| A. monoculata | 27 | — | 2 | 10.7 | 11.6 | 12.8 |
| C. nivicolus | 37 | — | 3 | 3.3 to 4.1 | 3.3 to 4.4 | 3.5 to 4.6 |
| Total | 726 | 139 (132) | 14 | |||
Numbers of sequences generated in this study are shown in parentheses. One representative sequence (658 bp) from each divergent lineage was used for calculation of pairwise distances in MEGA 7.0.26. —, not applicable.