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Table 2.

Results of initial primer screening in four populations of Atractylodes macrocephala.

Locus	Population PA( N = 24 )			Population PJ( N = 24 )			Population JL (N = 20 )			Population MC(N = 15 )

	N_a	H_o	H_e	N_a	H_o	H_e	N_a	H_o	H_e	N_a	H_o	H_e
Am1	4	0.333	0.472 n.s.	4	0.375	0.332 n.s.	3	0.300	0.273 n.s.	3	0.533	0.577 n.s.
Am2	12	0.792	0.846 n.s.	11	0.875	0.841 **	13	1.000	0.923 n.s.	11	0.667	0.899 n.s.
Am3	2	0.750	0.511 *	2	0.792	0.511 *	2	0.350	0.481 n.s.	2	0.533	0.497 n.s.
Am4	8	0.417	0.703 ***	9	0.917	0.847 n.s.	7	0.700	0.817 n.s.	10	0.800	0.853 n.s.
Am5	4	0.292	0.502 *	5	0.167	0.428 ***	3	0.350	0.606 *	3	0.333	0.297 n.s.
Am6	2	0.542	0.403 n.s.	5	0.667	0.569 n.s.	6	0.700	0.728 n.s.	4	0.600	0.646 n.s.
Am7	12	0.625	0.878 ***	9	0.583	0.846 ***	10	0.550	0.869 ***	10	0.667	0.814 n.s.
Am8	5	0.625	0.738 *	5	0.375	0.590 **	3	0.300	0.456 *	5	0.333	0.361 n.s.
Am9	12	0.875	0.847 n.s.	10	0.958	0.818 n.s.	9	0.800	0.864 n.s.	12	0.867	0.910 n.s.
Am10	4	0.750	0.724 n.s.	4	0.917	0.766 n.s.	5	0.800	0.792 n.s.	5	0.600	0.706 n.s.
Am11	10	0.500	0.854 ***	7	0.542	0.811 **	8	0.300	0.864 ***	6	0.600	0.823 *
Am12	11	0.917	0.882 n.s.	12	0.792	0.869 n.s.	13	0.750	0.904 *	13	0.667	0.938 *
Am13	3	0.083	0.194 *	4	0.333	0.535 *	2	0.100	0.097 n.s.	3	0.200	0.191 n.s.
Am14	2	0.333	0.383 n.s.	2	0.250	0.223 n.s.	2	0.150	0.296 *	2	0.400	0.460 n.s.
Am15	13	0.458	0.910 ***	9	0.292	0.885 ***	11	0.300	0.859 ***	12	0.467	0.924 ***
Mean	6.9	0.553	0.656	6.5	0.603	0.658	6.5	0.497	0.655	6.7	0.551	0.660

Note: N = sample size for each population; H_o = observed heterozygosity; H_e = expected heterozygosity; N_a = number of alleles per locus; Population PA = Panan population; Population PJ = Pingjiang population; Population JL = Jiulong population; Population MC = Micang population. *, ** and ***, Significant departures from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium at p < 0.05, p < 0.01, p < 0.001, respectively; n.s. = not significant.