Table 2 Characteristics of the sequences of the candidate barcodes.

From: Design and application of species-specific primers to Quercus cerris roots’ identification in urban forests

Marker

ITS

ITS2

matK

psbA-trnH

rbcL

rpoC1

trnL-trnF

Sequence length (bp)

323–601

95–224

239–1515

262–458

310–1449

500–554

135–389

Alignment length (bp)

668

251

1515

503

1449

619

404

GC content (%)

51.4–66.9

50.3–70.7

29.3–36.9

21.6–29.4

41.9–45.5

42.8–43.7

25.9–31.4

Conserved sites

223

70

1480

375

1428

594

289

Variable sites

420

171

35

87

21

4

107

Informative sites

296

133

23

35

15

2

61