Table 1.

Total number of alleles (n_a), effective number of alleles (n_e), n_e/n_a ratio, expected heterozygosity (H_e), polymorphic information content (PIC) and probability of exclusion (PE) by breed and locus, and significance of difference among breeds in the probability of exclusion by locus [p (χ²)].

		Microsatellite loci
	Breed	BM1824	BM2113	ETH10	ETH225	INRA23	SPS115	TGLA122	TGLA53	TGLA126	TGLA227	Global
na	CH	5	8	6	6	12	7	6	10	7	10	7.70
	LI	6	8	7	8	9	8	8	11	6	11	8.20
	PR	6	11	7	9	8	8	9	11	9	9	8.70
	Mean	5.67	9	6.67	7.67	9.67	7.67	7.67	10.67	7.33	10	8.20
ne	CH	3.83	5.68	1.28	3.47	10.14	2.26	4.10	6.96	2.61	4.69	4.50
	LI	3.21	5.99	4.16	4.60	5.21	3.86	6.16	6.42	2.59	5.89	4.81
	PR	3.94	6.80	4.57	4.90	3.02	2.49	3.31	4.31	3.38	2.96	3.97
	Mean	3.66	6.16	3.34	4.32	6.12	2.87	4.52	5.90	2.86	4.51	4.43
ne/na	CH	0.77	0.71	0.21	0.58	0.85	0.32	0.68	0.70	0.37	0.47	0.57
	LI	0.54	0.75	0.59	0.57	0.58	0.48	0.77	0.58	0.43	0.54	0.58
	PR	0.66	0.62	0.65	0.54	0.38	0.31	0.37	0.39	0.38	0.33	0.46
	Mean	0.66	0.69	0.48	0.56	0.60	0.37	0.61	0.56	0.39	0.45	0.54
He	CH	0.739	0.824	0.221	0.712	0.901	0.557	0.756	0.856	0.617	0.787	0.697
	LI	0.689	0.833	0.760	0.783	0.808	0.741	0.838	0.844	0.614	0.830	0.774
	PR	0.746	0.853	0.781	0.796	0.669	0.598	0.698	0.768	0.704	0.662	0.728
	Mean	0.725	0.837	0.587	0.764	0.793	0.632	0.764	0.823	0.645	0.760	0.733
PIC	CH	0.69	0.80	0.22	0.66	0.85	0.53	0.74	0.85	0.57	0.79	0.67
	LI	0.63	0.81	0.72	0.75	0.78	0.70	0.82	0.83	0.57	0.81	0.74
	PR	0.71	0.84	0.75	0.76	0.64	0.56	0.67	0.74	0.67	0.64	0.70
	Mean	0.68	0.82	0.56	0.72	0.76	0.60	0.74	0.81	0.60	0.75	0.70
PE	CH	0.498	0.650	0.121	0.467	0.802	0.351	0.573	0.721	0.377	0.608	0.9997
	LI	0.425	0.665	0.533	0.585	0.625	0.539	0.681	0.698	0.384	0.664	0.9999
	PR	0.524	0.711	0.583	0.598	0.471	0.380	0.495	0.574	0.386	0.467	0.9995
	Mean	0.482	0.675	0.412	0.55	0.633	0.423	0.583	0.664	0.382	0.580	0.9997
p (χ2)		ns	ns	**	ns	**	**	*	ns	ns	*	ns