Table 2.
Mantel and Partial Mantel test results for the correlations between the geographic distance (km) and the presence of the Richelieu River with the pairwise estimated genetic distance among individual raccoons sampled in the raccoon rabies variant (RRV) monitoring zone in southern Québec, Canada
| Test | r2 | Explanatory variable | β | r | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mantel tests | Overall (r2 = 0.0001) | Geographic distance | 0.00003 | 0.0119 | 0.02 |
| Females (r2 = 0.0003) | Geographic distance | 0.00005 | 0.0170 | 0.14 | |
| Males (r2 = 0.0001) | Geographic distance | 0.00002 | 0.0066 | 0.44 | |
| Partial Mantel tests | Overall (r2 = 0.0005) | Geographic distance | 0.000001 | 0.0119 | 0.94 |
| Presence of Richelieu River | 0.00611 | 0.0189 | 0.001 | ||
| Females (r2 = 0.0015) | Geographic distance | −0.00002 | −0.0170 | 0.72 | |
| Presence of Richelieu River | 0.01143 | 0.0343 | 0.007 | ||
| Males (r2 = 0.0003) | Geographic distance | −0.000004 | −0.0066 | 0.90 | |
| Presence of Richelieu River | 0.00479 | 0.0151 | 0.10 |
Pairwise genetic distances were defined as 1 – Rxy and using the Rxy estimator of Wang (2002). The percentage of variation explained by the models (r2), the slopes (β), the partial correlation coefficients (r) and their associated P-values are reported.