Table 1.
Summary statistics for eight microsatellite loci and each population sample of Sardina pilchardus*
| Locus name | NA | NS | HE | Ho | FIS | |
| SAR1.5 | 41 | 22.03 | 0.944 | 0.834 | 0.158 | |
| SAR1.12 | 61 | 31.13 | 0.940 | 0.659 | 0.450 | |
| SAR2.18 | 41 | 24.72 | 0.949 | 0.775 | 0.009 | |
| SAR9 | 48 | 21.56 | 0.930 | 0.847 | 0.090 | |
| SAR19B3 | 60 | 28.84 | 0.956 | 0.562 | 0.403 | |
| SAR19B5 | 81 | 43.20 | 0.980 | 0.747 | 0.156 | |
| SARA2F | 54 | 29.09 | 0.953 | 0.897 | 0.003 | |
| SARA3C | 94 | 42.28 | 0.974 | 0.581 | 0.349 | |
| Location | N | NA | NS | HE | Ho | FIS |
| Dakhla | 50 | 31.0 | 28.65 | 0.950 | 0.808 | 0.151 |
| Tantan | 47 | 30.7 | 28.58 | 0.950 | 0.775 | 0.187 |
| Safi | 50 | 29.4 | 26.55 | 0.948 | 0.742 | 0.219 |
| Larache | 50 | 29.4 | 27.20 | 0.951 | 0.682 | 0.285 |
| Quarteira | 47 | 27.4 | 25.99 | 0.944 | 0.728 | 0.232 |
| Pasajes | 49 | 30.0 | 28.15 | 0.953 | 0.726 | 0.240 |
| Nador | 47 | 29.2 | 27.08 | 0.946 | 0.726 | 0.234 |
| Barcelona | 45 | 27.5 | 26.45 | 0.944 | 0.692 | 0.269 |
| Kavala | 48 | 29.1 | 27.19 | 0.948 | 0.758 | 0.203 |
* N = population size; NA = total number of alleles per locus and mean number of alleles per population, respectively; NS = mean allelic richness standardized to the smallest sample size (42) using the rarefaction method of FSTAT 2.9.3 [66] per locus and population; mean expected (HE) and observed (HO) heterozygosities as well as mean FIS = Wright's statistics per locus and population. Bold FIS values are significant probability estimates after Bonferroni correction [69]