Table 3.

Genetic divergence among Myiopsitta monachus subspecies

a. Analysis of molecular variance including all subspecies
Subspecies	Source of	d.f.	% of	P-value
	variation‡		variation
M. m. calita	Among	3	61.23	<0.0001
M. m. cotorra	Within	74	38.77
M. m. monachus	Total	77
M. m. luchsi
b. Analysis of molecular variance excluding M. m. luchsi
Subspecies	Source of	d.f.	% of	P-value
	variation‡		variation
M. m. calita	Among	2	3.59	0.1369
M. m. cotorra	Within	61	96.41
M. m. monachus	Total	63
c. Diagnostic characters and fixation indices*
Subspecies	M. m. calita	M. m. cotorra	M. m. monachus	M. m. luchsi
M. m. calita	-	-0.0370	0.0500	0.8062**
M. m. cotorra	0	-	0.0422	0.8266**
M. m. monachus	0	0	-	0.7757**
M. m. luchsi	5	3	3	-

‡ Among populations, within populations or total.

* Number of diagnostic characters (below diagonal) and PhiST (above diagonal) based on mtDNA control region sequence data.

** Indicates statistical significance (p < 0.001).