Comparative chloroplast genome analysis of Artemisia (Asteraceae) in East Asia: insights into evolutionary divergence and phylogenomic implications

Table 2 DNA polymorphisms identified in the 32 Artemisia plastomes

Structural region	Alignment length (bp)	Number of variable sites			Nucleotide polymorphism
Structural region	Alignment length (bp)	Polymorphic	Singleton	PI^a	PI sites (%)	π^b	H^c
Whole DNA	153,229	2172	1062	1110	0.72	0.0024	30
LSC	84,443	1501	742	759	0.90	0.0029	30
SSC	18,737	523	266	257	1.37	0.0047	26
IR^d	50,049	148	54	94	0.19	0.0006	23

^aParsimony informative; ^bnucleotide diversity; ^cnumber of haplotypes
^dAlignments of two IR regions were combined and the 7 bp expansion in A. selengensis was included

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