Research Article

The Short ITS2 Sequence Serves as an Efficient Taxonomic Sequence Tag in Comparison with the Full-Length ITS

Table 5

Identification success based on “best match” and “best close match.”

Best matchBest close match
ITSITS2ITSITS2

Correct identification (%)67.886062.5332.00
Ambiguous identification (%)15014.00.00
Incorrect identification (%)17407.280.00
Without any match closer than 3.0% (%)16.2068.00