Table 5.

Pairwise Fst indices and their significances (in parentheses; NS = non significant) for the three populations revealed by microsatellites, DRB and DQA.

Pairwise comparison	Microsatellite [18] a	DRB [29]	DQA
Ya'an-Wolong ~ Chengdu	0.07 (NS)	0.04 (NS)	0.13 (P < 0.05)
Ya'an-Wolong ~ Louguantai	0.18 (P < 0.05)	0.13 (P < 0.05)	0.04 (NS)
Chengdu ~ Louguantai	0.18 (P < 0.05)	0.18 (P < 0.05)	0.04 (NS)

^aGene sources of the giant pandas in the Ya'an-Wolong, Chengdu and Louguantai bases were mainly from the Qionglai, Minshan and Qinling mountain ranges. As a result, we utilized the Fst indices in the study of Lü et al. [18] (0.07 for Minshan ~ Qionglai, 0.18 for Minshan ~ Qinling and 0.18 for Qionglai ~ Qinling).