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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Ecol. 2004 Jun;13(6):1341–1356. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2004.02164.x

Table 3.

Estimates of gene flow by mating system in plants and by mating system and geographical distribution in animals using nuclear markers

ST*
Nem
Taxon variable n Mean ± SE Median n Mean ± SE Median
Plant
 Mating system
  Outcrossing 74 0.29 ± 0.02 0.14 73 1.38 ± 0.31 1.47
  Mixed 174 0.30 ± 0.02 0.18 170 2.99 ± 0.57 1.17
  Selfing or clonal 22 0.43 ± 0.03 0.36 22 0.43 ± 0.06 0.45
  Unknown 24 0.48 ± 0.06 0.18 24 0.91 ± 0.27 1.15
 Range sampled
  Local 43 0.25 ± 0.02 0.16 43 2.04 ± 0.67 1.19
  Regional 52 0.39 ± 0.04 0.26 52 1.12 ± 0.24 0.71
  Biregional 2 0.41 ± 0.08 0.37 2 0.51 ± 0.10 0.56
  Species-wide 36 0.33 ± 0.03 0.25 36 0.82 ± 0.17 0.80
Animal
 Mating system
  Outcrossing 216 0.22 ± 0.01 0.11 219 4.67 ± 0.87 2.09
  Mixed 14 0.40 ± 0.10 0.16 13 7.55 ± 6.19 1.50
  Selfing or clonal 11 0.24 ± 0.06 0.22 11 2.99 ± 1.50 0.90
  Unknown 2 0.27 ± 0.11 0.33 2 0.80 ± 0.29 0.63
 Range sampled
  Local 65 0.10 ± 0.01 0.08 64 7.54 ± 1.41 3.13
  Regional 116 0.28 ± 0.02 0.12 116 3.25 ± 1.09 1.88
  Biregional 14 0.17 ± 0.04 0.02 17 17.21 ± 6.32 1.52
  Species-wide 48 0.23 ± 0.02 0.14 48 3.44 ± 1.73 1.56
 Geographical distribution
  Widespread 56 0.22 ± 0.02 0.07 58 7.16 ± 2.44 3.35
  Regional 143 0.25 ± 0.01 0.12 143 3.60 ± 0.70 1.89
  Endemic/relict 44 0.19 ± 0.02 0.16 44 4.09 ± 2.22 1.32
*

See footnote for Table 1.