Table 1.
The number of alleles (A) and expected heterozygosity (HE) at 10 microsatellite loci for Linepithema humile populations in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and the whole Australian dataset
| Melbourne | Adelaide | Perth | Australia | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Locus | A | HE | A | HE | A | HE | A | HE |
| Lhum-11 | 4 | 0.333 | 4 | 0.609 | 5 | 0.451 | 5 | 0.465 |
| Lhum-13 | 6 | 0.649 | 7 | 0.634 | 5 | 0.547 | 8 | 0.610 |
| Lhum-14 | 1 | 0.000 | 2 | 0.019 | 2 | 0.033 | 2 | 0.017 |
| Lhum-19 | 5 | 0.659 | 5 | 0.705 | 5 | 0.337 | 6 | 0.567 |
| Lhum-28 | 2 | 0.010 | 6 | 0.383 | 5 | 0.239 | 6 | 0.211 |
| Lhum-35 | 10 | 0.383 | 8 | 0.535 | 8 | 0.574 | 15 | 0.497 |
| Lhum-39 | 5 | 0.590 | 6 | 0.224 | 6 | 0.339 | 6 | 0.384 |
| Lhum-52 | 2 | 0.152 | 2 | 0.496 | 2 | 0.472 | 2 | 0.374 |
| Lihu-H | 4 | 0.686 | 5 | 0.638 | 5 | 0.657 | 5 | 0.660 |
| Lihu-T1 | 3 | 0.080 | 4 | 0.050 | 3 | 0.026 | 4 | 0.052 |
| All | 42 | 49 | 46 | 59 | ||||
| Mean | 0.354 | 0.429 | 0.368 | 0.384 | ||||