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. 2024 May 16;17:225. doi: 10.1186/s13071-024-06306-5

Table 3.

Analysis of MOlecular VAriance (AMOVA) to identify sources of variation and calculate fixation indices

Amova analysis
Host Source of variation d.f Sum of squares Variance components Percentage of variation Fixation indices P-value
Human Among countries 3 4.989 N/A Va N/A FCT 0.000 0.000
Among individuals within populations 136 44.339 0.10587 Vc N/A FIS 0.48088  < 0.001a
Within individuals 140 16 0.11429 Vd N/A FIT 0.000 0.000
Total 279 65.329 N/A
Pig Among countries 6 6.156 − 0.06328 Va -23.85 FCT − 0.23854 0.69306
Among individuals within populations 222 60.542 0.05374 Vc 20.26 FIS 0.24541  < 0.001a
Within individuals 233 38.5 0.16524 Vd 62.29 FIT 0.37711  < 0.001a
Total 465 121.605 0.26527

Ascaris samples (individuals) were grouped by country with analysis run separately for worms derived from different hosts. For the UK pig farm data, each farm was designated as a separate population. Results show the degrees of freedom (d.f.) sum of squares and variance components which are used to calculate the percentage of variation contained within the sample divisions. Fixation indices are shown for FCT, FIS and FIT along with p-values from 1023 permutations