Table 2. Genetic diversity for each group of samples.

Group	N	Average number of alleles	Allelic richness	PIC	HE	HO
Game farm quails	52	14.00	7.65	0.80	0.83	0.80
Experimental farm quails	19	8.64	6.93	0.77	0.82	0.84**
Wild common quails	42	17.73	9.82	0.87	0.90	0.90
Domestic Japanese quails	39	5.27	4.11	0.59	0.66	0.60*

N: number of individuals. PIC: Polymorphic Information Content [40]. H_E: expected heterozygosity [42]; H_O: observed heterozygosity [42]. Significant differences between H_E and H_O are indicated by * (p≤0.05) and ** (p≤0.001).