Assessment of four DNA fragments (COI, 16S rDNA, ITS2, 12S rDNA) for species identification of the Ixodida (Acari: Ixodida)

Table 4 Statistical analyses to evaluate the influence of methods on species identification success rates

Methods	NN	BLASTn	Liberal tree-based	Liberal tree-based (+threshold)
Rates of species identification success (±SE)	0.9743 ± 0.0088^a	0.9716 ± 0.0109^a	0.9271 ± 0.0184^b	0.9168 ± 0.0212^b

In the Duncan’s multiple range test, columns with different superscripted letters (a, b, c and d) indicate significant difference at P=0.05 between mean values; no significant difference was seen between mean values with the same superscript.

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