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Table 3. Statistical power of different marker types for detecting various true levels of population differentiation (F_ST) by means of Fisher's exact test when using present sample sizes and allele frequencies obtained from the eight samples in this study.

F_ST	Micro- satellites 8 loci	Allozymes 11 loci	mtDNA	MHC	Cpa112	Median of individual microsatellite loci
0.0000	0.063	0.057	0.063	0.064	0.049	0.054
0.0001	0.125	0.056	0.072	0.068	0.070	0.065
0.0010	0.958	0.342	0.455	0.240	0.386	0.366
0.0020	1.000	0.774	0.866	0.572	0.799	0.770
0.0050	1.000	0.998	1.000	0.982	0.998	1.000
0.0100	1.000	1.000	1.000	1.000	1.000	1.000

Abbreviations: MHC, major histocompatibility complex; mtDNA, mitochondrial DNA.

Table 3. Statistical power of different marker types for detecting various true levels of population differentiation (FST) by means of Fisher's exact test when using present sample sizes and allele frequencies obtained from the eight samples in this study.