Table 4. Comparisons of Phylogenetic Information of Indels and Number of Indels versus Number of Variable Sites in Two Intergenic Spacers a

Intergenic spacers

No. of indels

No. of informative indels

% informative indels

No. of homoplasious indelsb

No. of synapomorphic indels

Ratio of indels to variable sitesc

Ratio of syn. indels to syn. sitesd

psbA-trnH

11

9

81.8

1

8

0.46

0.67

trnL-trnF

6

3

50.0

0

3

0.60

0.75


a There is no indel in matK coding region of Paeonia. For definitions of columns see also Table 3.

b Indel 8 of psbA-trnH intergenic spacer conflicts with matK and ITS phylogenies.

c Ratio of number of indels to number of variable sites found in each intergenic spacer (Table 3).

d Ratio of number of synapomorphic indels to number of synapomorphic sites in each intergenic spaver (Table 3).