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Table 5 Published arthropod substitution rate estimates for the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI)

From: Limited, episodic diversification and contrasting phylogeography in a New Zealand cicada radiation

Reference

Taxon

Corrected pairwise distance (%)

Per lineage rate, (subst./site/my)

Caccone and Sbordoni [95]

Ovobathysciola cave beetles

1.2

0.006

Caccone and Sbordoni [95]

Speonornus cave beetles

1.3

0.0065

Farrell [19]

Tetraopes beetles

1.5

0.0075

Juan et al. [96]

Pimelia beetles, Canary Is.

1.3

0.0065

Knowlton and Weigt [20], Morrison et al. [97]

Alpheus snapping shrimp

1.4

0.007

Papadopoulou et al. [25]

Tenebrionid beetle genera (6)

3.54

0.0177

Schubart et al. [98]

Sesarma land crabs #1

1.28, 1.9

0.0064, 0.0095

Sota and Hayashi [85]

Plateumaris leaf beetles

1.6

0.008

  1. Although these distances were reported as percentages in the papers referenced, a common practice, this is not ideal for corrected distances since the values can exceed 100%.