Equence data. Since neither Schisandra nor Kadsura is monophyletic based on previous phylogenetic AMG9810 custom synthesis studies, these two genera were not separated into independent analyses [40?5].Data analysisDistance-based analysis. We calculated genetic distances for each DNA region using MEGA v5.05 [78] based on the uncorrected p-distance model, which has been shown to perform as well as or better than the broadly used Kimura-2-parameter model [79?1]. The pairwise distances, intra- and interspecific distances were calculated for each species that were represented by more than one individual. Additionally, the differences of intra- and interspecific divergences between each pair of four commonly used barcoding loci were tested by Wilcoxon signed-ranks tests [7,15] in PASW Statistics 18.0 (IBM, Armonk, New York, USA). To assess the differences between intra- and interspecific divergences within each commonly used barcoding locus, Wilcoxon two-sample tests were performed. For each species, the minimum interspecific distances were compared with maximum intraspecific distances in order to detect the presence of a barcoding gap [82,83]. In Figs 1 and 2, the dot above the 1:1 slope indicates the presence of a barcoding gap for the species, whereas the dot below the 1:1 slope implies no barcoding gap [81,84]. Tree-based journal.pone.0174109 analysis. Phylogenetic trees were constructed for each single region and various multi-locus combinations using maximum-likelihood (ML) and Bayesian-inference (BI) methods in order to assess whether species are recovered as monophyletic. The percentage of the monophyletic clusters for individuals belonging to the same species was calculated. For model-based phylogenetic methods (ML and BI), the best-fitting model for each dataset was determined by the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) in jModelTest 2.1.4 [85]. ML and BI analyses were carried out by running RAxML-HPC2 7.6.3 on XSEDE [86] and MrBayes 3.2.2 on XSEDE [87] respectively at the CIPRES Science Gateway (http://www.phylo.org/). The bootstrap Serabelisib web values of ML trees were assessed by 1000 replicates of heuristic searches [88]. For BI analyses, four Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) chains were run for 10,000,000 generations until the average deviation of split frequencies was below 0.01. The 50 majority-rule consensus trees were constructed after the first 25 of sampled trees were removed during the burnin period. The posterior probability (PP) of each topological bipartition was calculated across remaining trees. There were no strongly supported topological conflicts (i.e., incongruences with bootstrap values 70 for ML, and posterior probabilities 0.95 for BI) among the phylogenies of individual loci, so they could be combined in the further analyses. Similarity-based analysis. Furthermore, we measured the proportion of correct identification using `best match’ and `best close match’ methods in TAXONDNA based on the uncorrected p-distances, which could determine the closest match of a sequence by comparing it to all other sequences in the aligned data set [89]. The analyses require species to be represented by two or more individuals. For the `best close match’ method, the threshold similarity values were computed from the pairwise summary, in order to define how similar a barcode match needs to be before it can be identified [89]. The criteria for successful identification, ambiguousPLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0125574 May 4,5 /DNA Barcoding for SchisandraceaeFig 1. Plots of maximum i.Equence data. Since neither Schisandra nor Kadsura is monophyletic based on previous phylogenetic studies, these two genera were not separated into independent analyses [40?5].Data analysisDistance-based analysis. We calculated genetic distances for each DNA region using MEGA v5.05 [78] based on the uncorrected p-distance model, which has been shown to perform as well as or better than the broadly used Kimura-2-parameter model [79?1]. The pairwise distances, intra- and interspecific distances were calculated for each species that were represented by more than one individual. Additionally, the differences of intra- and interspecific divergences between each pair of four commonly used barcoding loci were tested by Wilcoxon signed-ranks tests [7,15] in PASW Statistics 18.0 (IBM, Armonk, New York, USA). To assess the differences between intra- and interspecific divergences within each commonly used barcoding locus, Wilcoxon two-sample tests were performed. For each species, the minimum interspecific distances were compared with maximum intraspecific distances in order to detect the presence of a barcoding gap [82,83]. In Figs 1 and 2, the dot above the 1:1 slope indicates the presence of a barcoding gap for the species, whereas the dot below the 1:1 slope implies no barcoding gap [81,84]. Tree-based journal.pone.0174109 analysis. Phylogenetic trees were constructed for each single region and various multi-locus combinations using maximum-likelihood (ML) and Bayesian-inference (BI) methods in order to assess whether species are recovered as monophyletic. The percentage of the monophyletic clusters for individuals belonging to the same species was calculated. For model-based phylogenetic methods (ML and BI), the best-fitting model for each dataset was determined by the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) in jModelTest 2.1.4 [85]. ML and BI analyses were carried out by running RAxML-HPC2 7.6.3 on XSEDE [86] and MrBayes 3.2.2 on XSEDE [87] respectively at the CIPRES Science Gateway (http://www.phylo.org/). The bootstrap values of ML trees were assessed by 1000 replicates of heuristic searches [88]. For BI analyses, four Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) chains were run for 10,000,000 generations until the average deviation of split frequencies was below 0.01. The 50 majority-rule consensus trees were constructed after the first 25 of sampled trees were removed during the burnin period. The posterior probability (PP) of each topological bipartition was calculated across remaining trees. There were no strongly supported topological conflicts (i.e., incongruences with bootstrap values 70 for ML, and posterior probabilities 0.95 for BI) among the phylogenies of individual loci, so they could be combined in the further analyses. Similarity-based analysis. Furthermore, we measured the proportion of correct identification using `best match’ and `best close match’ methods in TAXONDNA based on the uncorrected p-distances, which could determine the closest match of a sequence by comparing it to all other sequences in the aligned data set [89]. The analyses require species to be represented by two or more individuals. For the `best close match’ method, the threshold similarity values were computed from the pairwise summary, in order to define how similar a barcode match needs to be before it can be identified [89]. The criteria for successful identification, ambiguousPLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0125574 May 4,5 /DNA Barcoding for SchisandraceaeFig 1. Plots of maximum i.