Table 1 Divergence time and mutation rate hyper-parameter priors used for the ABC analyses.

t₁

First splitting time

Uniform (0, 2 My)

t₂

Second splitting time

t1 values + Uniform (0, 1.5 My)

t₃

Third splitting time

t2 values + Uniform (0, 1.5 My)

t₄

Fourth splitting time

t3 values + Uniform (0, 2 My)

t₅

Fifth splitting time

t4 values + Uniform (0, 5 My)

Marker Hyper-parameters

Mutation rate for mtDNA standard

slower

ϑ_STRm

mean of mutation rate for STR locus

Normal (-3.5, 0.25)

Normal (-3.5, 0.25)

ϑ_STRsd

st. dev. of mutation rate for STR locus

Abs [Normal (0, 0.5)]

Abs [Normal (0, 0.5)]

ϑ_SNPm

mean of mutation rate for mtDNA locus

Normal (-4.630784, 0.25)

Normal (-5.267606, 0.25)

ϑ_SNPsd

st. dev. of mutation rate for mtDNA locus

Abs [Normal (0, 0.5)]

Abs [Normal (0, 0.5)]