Table 4

Sequence statistics for the rapidly evolving chloroplast markers used

charset

#chars

#chars*

length range

mean

S.D.

%divergence*

S.E.*

%variable*

%informative*

%GC

dataset

7809

6070

2211-4503

3.926.44

482.561

10.15

0.187

51.417

36.063

34.212

trnK/matK

3699

3035

454-2645

2.228.78

446.491

10.367

0.264

60.362

43.229

43.229

trnLF

1997

1577

489-1104

882.881

72.353

9.086

0.402

40.076

28.155

28.155

rps16

2113

1458

0-929

814.772

122.607

10.792

0.464

45.062

29.698

29.698

* calculated based on the alignment with hotspots excluded

Standard errors calculated based on 100 bootstrap replicates.

Key: Characters = number of characters in the alignment matrix; Length range = actual sequence length in nucleotides (including hotspots; minimal and maximal value observed); SD = standard deviation of mean length; S.E. = Standard error; % divergence (range) = pairwise sequence distance in percent (uncorrected p distance, overall mean); % variable = percentage of variable positions; % informative = percentage of parsimony informative positions; % GC = GC content.

Schäferhoff et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010 10:352   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-352