Figure 3. Structure analyses performed on the putative Italian wolf x dog hybrids (HYIT), assuming 4 reference groups (DIT, DAP, DCZ and WIT), at 39 (A), 24 (B) and 12 (C) microsatellites.

Structure was run with K from 1 to 8 (left side: values of ΔK; Evanno et al. [82]), with 400 000 MCMC and 40 000 burn-ins, with option “usepopinfo” not activated.