Table 2.

Genetic differentiation among poodle groups and other dogs.

FST	MS brown black	M, T brown black	MS, M, T silver white	MS, M, T apricot	Miniature schnauzer	Giant schna.	Fox terrier (smooth)	Fox terrier (wire)	Bull terrier	German shep.	Labrador retriever	Siberian husky
Standard poodle	0.265	0.199	0.197	0.262	0.279	0.273	0.372	0.346	0.367	0.332	0.278	0.241
MS brown-black1		0.050	0.085	0.120	0.255	0.214	0.293	0.301	0.368	0.252	0.214	0.207
M, T brown-black2			0.052	0.110	0.219	0.188	0.238	0.238	0.309	0.248	0.157	0.182
MS, M, T silver-white3				0.059	0.179	0.170	0.220	0.225	0.274	0.232	0.117	0.150
MS, M, T apricot4					0.248	0.226	0.275	0.304	0.327	0.306	0.197	0.235
Miniature schnauzer						0.150	0.321	0.332	0.402	0.301	0.191	0.194
Giant schnauzer							0.292	0.318	0.386	0.195	0.212	0.172
Fox terrier (smooth)								0.285	0.444	0.414	0.290	0.290
Fox terrier (wire)									0.452	0.424	0.272	0.270
Bull terrier										0.517	0.306	0.371
German shepherd											0.273	0.235
Labrador retriever												0.187

Measured as pairwise F_ST (Weir and Cockerham 1984), between five size and color groups found in poodles (within box, see text) and eight additional breeds, for 27 loci. All results are highly significant (p < 0.01).

¹ Medium size poodles with brown or black color

² Miniature poodles and toy poodles with brown or black color

³ Medium size poodles, miniature poodles and toy poodles with silver (grey) or white color

⁴ Medium size poodles, miniature poodles and toy poodles with apricot color