Table 3. Comparison of genetic diversity and differentiation between Quercus liaotungensis and Q. mongolica based on the 19 SSR loci.

	N		An		AP		HO		HE		θ
Locus	QL	QM	QL	QM	QL	QM	QL	QM	QL	QM	Between species	QL	QM
ssrQpZAG36	201	174	13	14	1	2	0.677	0.743	0.746	0.823	0.158	0.074	0.030
ssrQpZAG16	201	174	19	18	1	0	0.851	0.878	0.903	0.914	0.008	0.041	0.024
ssrQpZAG15	201	174	18	13	7	2	0.555	0.242	0.605	0.240	0.081	0.043	0.031
ssrQpZAG110	201	173	15	21	1	7	0.680	0.542	0.646	0.595	0.103	0.055	0.022
quru-GA-0C11	201	174	20	20	1	1	0.832	0.615	0.895	0.634	0.132	0.066	0.017
quru-GA-0C19	201	173	5	5	0	0	0.405	0.287	0.395	0.290	0.008	0.049	0.001
quru-GA-0M05	201	174	21	18	6	3	0.766	0.754	0.798	0.808	0.008	0.026	0.013
quru-GA-0M07	201	174	9	12	0	3	0.732	0.766	0.770	0.829	0.043	0.040	0.018
quru-GA-1C08	200	173	16	15	1	0	0.723	0.795	0.800	0.819	0.019	0.110	0.017
MSQ4	201	174	18	27	1	10	0.807	0.780	0.899	0.919	0.008	0.017	0.031
MSQ13	200	172	12	12	2	2	0.721	0.703	0.808	0.798	0.018	0.055	0.044
MSQ16	199	171	15	19	0	4	0.855	0.799	0.894	0.809	0.051	0.025	0.015
ssrQrZAG7	201	174	20	22	0	2	0.915	0.954	0.911	0.933	0.019	0.023	0.013
ssrQrZAG87	200	173	23	36	0	13	0.770	0.919	0.818	0.951	0.061	0.044	0.007
ssrQrZAG96	201	174	24	22	5	3	0.852	0.874	0.928	0.884	0.025	0.018	0.020
ssrQrZAG101	201	172	21	24	2	5	0.794	0.930	0.842	0.918	0.046	0.110	0.025
ssrQrZAG102	201	173	38	42	2	6	0.937	0.954	0.967	0.963	0.004	0.021	0.011
ssrQrZAG112	201	174	16	17	2	3	0.825	0.711	0.841	0.759	0.097	0.039	0.025
bcqm42F	201	172	11	9	2	0	0.758	0.596	0.745	0.623	0.031	0.043	−0.001
All	201	174	323	357	32	66	0.761	0.729	0.801	0.764	0.049**	0.046**	0.019**

QL: seven populations of Q. liaotungensis; QM: six populations of Q. mongolica; N: number of individual analyzed; A_n: number of alleles over all populations for each species; A_P: number of private alleles; H_O: observed heterozygosity; H_E: expected heterozygosity;

**: p<0.01.