Table 2.

Genetic diversity at AFLPs in albatrosses and other vertebrates in the literature. Data is representative of the range found in vertebrates.

species	region/area covered	extensive coverage of species' range?	sample size	number of loci	% polymorphic locia	expected heterozygosity	source
wandering Albatross	Indian and Atlantic Oceans	yes	400	234	5.1	0.028	this study
Amsterdam Albatross	Amsterdam island (Indian Ocean)	yes	34	234	2.1	0.010	this study
snow goose	Bylot Island	no	745	191	17	0.10	Lecomte et al. (in preparation)
willow flycatcher (1 subspecies)	Southwestern United States	no	290	708	27.8	0.221–0.348b	Busch et al. (2000)
horned grebe	Yukon, Québec, Iceland	yes	90	96	29.2	n.a.	M. Boulet (2006, personal communication)
house finch	North America and Hawaii	yes	163	269	29.9c	0.10c	Wang et al. (2003)
bluethroat (1 population)	Northwestern France	no	162	232	34.9	n.a.	Questiau et al. (1999)
warblers (2 subspecies)	Pyrenees	no	30	251	56.2	n.a.	Bensch et al. (2002)
wild turkey (5 subspecies)	North America and Mexico	yes	379	n.a.	37–58, 54–73d	n.a.	Mock et al. (2002)
American eel	US Atlantic coast	yes	193	373	51.7	n.a.	V. Albert, (2006, personal communication)
European eel	Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea	no	186	186	50.7	n.a.	V. Albert, (2006, personal communication)
mole-rats	Israel/<1 ha	no	20	729	59.9	0.097–0.159	Polyakov et al. (2004)
Anolis lizards (two species)	Caribbean's/transects less than 7 km	no	48–90	310–313	61.9–62.9	n.a.	Ogden & Thorpe (2002)
giant salamander	Southern British Columbia (Canada)	no	20–28	n.a.	53.7–97.6c	0.192–0.386c	Curtis & Taylor (2004)

^a5% criterion except for giant salamander for which it was close or equal to 5% as sample sizes within populations ranged 20–28.

^bRange of values for 20 sampling sites

^cAverage of values within sampling localities.

^dRange of confidence intervals within defined subspecies.