TABLE 1.

Mean and standard deviation (SD) of F_ST from 1000 simulations at various levels of F_ST for different numbers of sampling localities

		ML		PL		IL
FST	K	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
0.01	2	0.00014 (−98.6)	0.0007	0.00008 (−99.2)	0.0006	0.00691 (−30.9)	0.0051
	5	0.00421 (−57.9)	0.0026	0.00415 (−58.5)	0.0026	0.00952 (−4.8)	0.0031
	10	0.00690 (−31.0)	0.0021	0.00686 (−31.4)	0.0021	0.00962 (−3.8)	0.0022
	15	0.00802 (−19.8)	0.0017	0.00799 (−20.1)	0.0017	0.00984 (−1.6)	0.0018
0.05	2	0.0154 (−69.2)	0.0082	0.0134 (−73.2)	0.0093	0.0356 (−28.7)	0.0105
	5	0.0368 (−26.5)	0.0061	0.0365 (−27.0)	0.0061	0.0461 (−7.9)	0.0066
	10	0.0434 (−13.3)	0.0045	0.0432 (−13.5)	0.0045	0.0481 (−3.7)	0.0046
	15	0.0457 (−8.5)	0.0037	0.0457 (−8.7)	0.0037	0.0489 (−2.1)	0.0038
0.1	2	0.0431 (−56.9)	0.0140	0.0408 (−59.2)	0.0135	0.0704 (−29.6)	0.0162
	5	0.0784 (−21.6)	0.0101	0.0779 (−22.1)	0.0101	0.0902 (−9.8)	0.0104
	10	0.0887 (−11.3)	0.0072	0.0885 (−11.5)	0.0072	0.0946 (−5.4)	0.0073
	15	0.0929 (−7.1)	0.0060	0.0927 (−7.3)	0.0060	0.0968 (−3.2)	0.0061
0.4	2	0.260 (−35.1)	0.515	0.231 (−43.2)	0.475	0.313 (−21.6)	0.467
	5	0.352 (−12.1)	0.272	0.341 (−14.7)	0.271	0.367 (−8.3)	0.264
	10	0.378 (−5.5)	0.188	0.373 (−6.8)	0.189	0.383 (−4.3)	0.185
	15	0.385 (−3.8)	0.150	0.382 (−4.6)	0.151	0.388 (−3.1)	0.148

The bias (percentage) is shown in parentheses. The sample size is N = 50, and the number of loci and alleles are L = 10 and J = 5, respectively. The mean allele frequencies are fixed at .