Table 3.

MtDNA population average pairwise differences

	Section A	Section D	Carneddau	Connemara	Highland
Section A	9.145	9.436	9.977***	8.712***	8.714**
Section D	−0.072	9.871	10.588***	8.874**	9.027
Carneddau	1.540***	1.788***	7.729	10.810***	10.986***
Connemara	0.672***	0.471**	3.478***	6.934	7.377*
Highland	0.499**	0.450**	3.480***	0.268*	7.284

Above diagonal: Average number of pairwise differences between populations (πXY).

Diagonal elements: Average number of pairwise differences within population (πX).

Below diagonal: Corrected average pairwise difference (πXY−(πX + πY)/2).

Probability of result: *<0.05, **<0.01, ***<0.001.