| TP | Tarim pigeon |
| XY | Homing pigeon |
| FC, FY | Tumbler pigeon |
| Na | The number of alleles |
| Ne | The number of effective alleles |
| PIC | Polymorphism information content |
| HO | Heterozygosity |
| HE | Heterozygosity |
| WGS | Whole-genome resequencing |
| Raw reads | Raw sequence data |
| SNP | Single-nucleotide polymorphism |
| PCs | Principal components |
| π | Nucleotide diversity |
| I | Shannon diversity index |
| FST | Genetic differentiation coefficient |
| DR | Genetic distance |
| Nm | Number of migrants per generation |
| CV | Cross-validation |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |