Table 2.

Estimates of tMRCAs of the most recent nodes (main sub-clades) and 95% confidence intervals.

Sub-clade	tMRCA (in Myrs)	95% confidence interval (in Myrs)	Tree Prior
Rest of Europe	0.090	0.028 - 0.172	Exponential*
Iberian Peninsula	0.091	0.005 - 0.201	Constant
South Algeria - South Morocco	0.130	0.011 - 0.290	Constant
North Morocco	0.532	0.194 - 0.905	Constant
Corsica	--**		Constant
North Algeria	0.171	0.026 - 0.355	Constant
Tunisia	0.326	0.092 - 0.601	Constant
Libya	--**		Constant
N & W Turkey	0.332	0.114 - 0.608	Constant
E. Turkey, Lebanon, Israel	0.417	0.148 - 0.711	Constant
Cyprus	0.151	0.021 - 0.313	Constant
Crete	0.381	0.116 - 0.688	Constant

Estimates were obtained by assuming a coalescent prior of constant size or exponential growth and by including all the sequences of each given sub-clade. Names are the same as in Figure 2.

* Results based on an exponential prior are reported because the rate of exponential growth (g) was significantly higher than 0 for this group.

** MCMC did not converge due to small sample size (N = 10 and 6 for Corsica and Libya, respectively)