Table 2.
A summary of the results of this study and of previous comparable studies
| Polymorphism | Loci, n | Groups, n | Average variance components, %
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Within samples | Among samples within groups | Among groups | |||
| Protein (Lewontin 1972; ref. 1) | 17 | 7 | 85.4 | 8.3 | 6.3 |
| Protein (Latter 1980; ref. 3)* | 18 | 6 | 83.8–87.0 | 5.5–6.6 | 7.5–10.4 |
| Protein (Ryman et al. 1983; ref. 5)† | 25 | 3 | 86.0 | 2.8 | 11.2 |
| DNA (this study)‡ | 109 | 4–5 | 84.4 | 4.7 | 10.8 |
*
Latter used three different statistical techniques.
†
The study by Ryman et al. incorporates the data of ref. 4.
‡
Average of three data sets weighted for the number of loci.