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Table 1 Genetic Diversity Within Five Sheep Populations

From: Linkage disequilibrium compared between five populations of domestic sheep

  

Within Population Diversity

Population Fst

Population

n

H E

A N

A R

pA R

PD

MER

MxB

EMAI

WFS

84

0.68

6.90

7.21

0.26

0.035

0.051

0.063

0.257

PD

122

0.65

7.03

6.95

0.18

 

0.072

0.085

0.259

MER

126

0.70

8.13

8.13

0.58

  

0.043

0.183

MxB

128

0.68

7.80

7.79

0.36

   

0.217

EMAI

95

0.40

3.03

3.13

0.09

    
  1. Microsatellite genotypes from 28 microsatellite markers were used to estimate the following measures of genetic diversity; HE is the expected heterozygosity or gene diversity; AN is the average number of observed alleles per locus; AR is allelic richness, a measure of diversity following rarefaction for sample size; pAR is private allele richness, a simple measure of population distinctiveness. All measures were calculated using HP-RARE ver1.0 [29]. n is the number of individuals tested. Pair-wise estimates of FST were calculated using the program FSTAT 2.9.3.2 http://www2.unil.ch/popgen/softwares/fstat.htm.