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. 2010 Dec 21;42(1):43. doi: 10.1186/1297-9686-42-43

Table 4.

Allelic richness (r), expected (HE) and observed (HO) heterozygosity, FIS1 values for feral sheep populations of New Zealand

Population Arapawa Island I Arapawa Island II Chatham Island Pitt Island
locus r HO HE FIS r HO HE FIS r HO HE FIS r HO HE FIS
KRTAP1-1 3.72 0.71 0.61 -0.18 3.30 0.14 0.13 -0.06 3.17 0.36 0.30 -0.20 4.24 0.23 0.26 0.11*
KRT33 5.96 0.69 0.73 0.05 4.00 0.58 0.65 0.11** 5.02 0.81 0.78 -0.05 5.95 0.59 0.58 -0.02
ADRB3 2.83 0.71 0.73 0.03 1.59 0.75 0.66 -0.13 1.94 0.59 0.62 0.04 1.87 0.77 0.77 -0.01
DQA2 4.26 0.82 0.84 0.02* 2.96 0.66 0.62 -0.06 4.48 0.95 0.81 -0.18 2.83 0.82 0.83 0.00

Mean 4.19 0.73 0.73 - 2.96 0.53 0.52 - 3.65 0.68 0.63 - 3.72 0.60 0.61 -


Population Campbell Island Woodstock Hokonui I Hokonui II
locus r HO HE FIS r HO HE FIS r HO HE FIS r HO HE FIS

KRTAP1-1 2.90 0.06 0.30 0.79** 3.41 0.36 0.47 0.24 2.54 0.36 0.31 -0.18 3.05 0.20 0.21 0.03
KRT33 4.71 0.59 0.61 0.04 5.49 0.63 0.76 0.17 4.41 1.00 0.77 -0.33 6.12 0.85 0.78 -0.09
ADRB3 2.06 0.53 0.51 -0.37 2.38 0.80 0.66 -0.21 1.97 0.55 0.44 -0.26 1.79 0.69 0.61 -0.13
DQA2 3.03 0.74 0.76 0.02 4.33 0.94 0.81 -0.16** 3.95 0.67 0.60 -0.11 4.52 0.89 0.86 -0.04

Mean 3.18 0.48 0.55 - 3.90 0.68 0.68 - 3.22 0.65 0.53 - 3.87 0.66 0.62 -


Population Herbert Mohaka Allele richness averages
locus r HO HE FIS r HO HE FIS

KRTAP1-1 2.61 0.30 0.26 -0.16 3.00 0.33 0.30 -0.11 3.19
KRT33 5.04 0.79 0.74 -0.07 1.86 0.57 0.53 -0.09 4.86
ADRB3 1.90 0.46 0.38 -0.20 2.00 0.67 0.53 -0.29 2.03
DQA2 4.03 0.79 0.79 -0.01 2.00 0.14 0.14 - 3.64

Mean 3.40 0.59 0.54 - 2.22 0.43 0.38 -

1Significance of FIS is indicated * P< 0.05, ** P< 0.01, figure in bold character shows a tendency towards significance (P < 0.10); negative values indicate outbreeding while positive values indicate inbreeding; "-" represents data that could not be obtained