FIGURE 2 in Comparing genetic markers' efficiencies for discrimination between two commercially important holothuroids in the Mediterranean Sea, Holothuria polii and Holothuria sanctori

FIGURE 2. Distribution of 16S rDNA-based genetic pairwise distances among different Mediterranean species obtained in the current study and available in the GenBank. (a): H. polii vs. Mediterranean holothuroids, (b) H. sanctori vs. the Mediterranean holothuroids. For the 28S rDNA, the genetic distance for H. polii was the lowest with H. forskali (0.01) but the highest with H. sanctori (1.08) (Fig. 2A). For H. sanctori, the lowest pairwise distance was with H. polii (1.08), while the highest was with P. longicauda (1.163) (Fig. 2B).