Miocene and Pliocene dominated diversification of the lichen-forming fungal genus Melanohalea(Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota) and Pleistocene population expansions

Table 2 Estimates of substitution rates in Melanohalea from the BEAST analysis of the concatenated six-loci dataset estimated under a relax molecular clock using fixed substitution rates for the nuLSU, mtSSU, and RPB 1 markers [12]

	Concatenated gene tree analysis		Multilocus species tree analysis
Locus	Rate	Rate 95% HPD	Rate	Rate 95% HPD
ITS	3.296	2.49 – 4.11	3.41	2.67 – 4.17
LSU	0.684	0.58 – 0.80	0.71	0.62 – 0.80
mtSSU	0.701	0.42 – 1.05	0.66	0.44 – 0.92
MCM7	1.649	1.26 – 2.05	1.71	1.36 – 2.08
RPB1	1.548	1.27 – 1.82	1.70	1.57 – 1.83
RPB2	1.391	1.08 – 1.75	1.51	1.20 – 1.82

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