Comparative analysis of chloroplast genomes of Pulsatilla species reveals evolutionary and taxonomic status of newly discovered endangered species Pulsatilla saxatilis

Table 3 Number of nucleotide substitutions and sequence distance in 10 complete cp. genomes

	P.chinensis	P. chinensis f. alba	P. chinensis var. kissii	P. cernua	P. tongkangensis	P. cernua f. plumbea	P.dahurica	P. turczaninovii	P. campanella	P. saxatilis
P. chinensis		0.00032	0.0001	0.00477	0.004	0.00417	0.00414	0.00441	0.00742	0.00657
P. chinensis f. alba	52		0.00025	0.00465	0.00399	0.0042	0.00422	0.00446	0.00745	0.00659
P. chinensis var. kissii	17	41		0.00426	0.00391	0.00426	0.00423	0.00447	0.00748	0.00658
P. cernua	769	749	689		0.00282	0.00402	0.00388	0.00382	0.00784	0.00703
P. tongkangensis	648	646	633	456		0.00282	0.00293	0.00419	0.00743	0.0062
P. cernua f. plumbea	673	678	689	648	456		0.00017	0.00382	0.00813	0.00615
P. dahurica	669	681	683	625	473	28		0.00384	0.00816	0.00623
P. turczaninovii	714	721	724	616	679	616	619		0.00705	0.00576
P. campanella	1190	1195	1199	1259	1192	1302	1308	1129		0.00516
P. saxatilis	1057	1061	1059	1129	999	989	1003	927	830

The upper triangle shows the number of sequence distance in complete cp. genomes and the lower triangle indicates the number of nucleotide substitutions

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