Table 1. Genetic diversity measures within each study plot of the mutualist Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus in South Mexico as obtained from female genotypes.

	Mutualist1 (n = 44)			Mutualist2 (n = 47)
Locus	N A	H E	H O	N A	H E	H O
Psfe14	5	0.68	0.86*	11	0.88	0.96*
Psfe17	6	0.77	0.57*	10	0.87	0.85*
Psfe20	3	0.25	0.07*	5	0.70	0.47*
Psfe21	5	0.69	0.93*	3	0.46	0.62*
Psfe15	4	0.19	0.20	9	0.81	0.64*
Psfe16	6	0.76	0.73*	8	0.86	1.00*
Psfe18	3	0.19	0.21	9	0.87	1.00*
Psfe19	9	0.74	0.66*	6	0.62	0.64*
Psfe06	4	0.65	0.68*	10	0.86	0.83*
Psfe07	3	0.60	0.49*	8	0.84	1.00*
Psfe08	2	0.50	0.52	8	0.84	0.70*
Psfe13	3	0.65	0.61*	11	0.88	1.00*
Total	53			98
Mean	4.4	0.56	0.54	8.1	0.79	0.81

n denotes the total number of female individuals for each plot; N _A denotes observed number of alleles found at each locus from each plot; H _E = expected heterozygosity; H _O = observed heterozygosity;

^*significant deviation according to HW-Probability test (P<0.05).