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. 2014 Apr 21;45(4):550–558. doi: 10.1111/age.12158

Table 1.

Genetic diversity of domestic camel populations determined from mitochondrial and microsatellite data.

mtDNA (803 bp)
Pop n Haplotypes Var. sites Hd π k θS
HHH 8 6 5 0.929 (0.084) 0.0029 (0.002) 2.393 (1.603) 1.928 (1.129)
HZ 9 6 7 0.889 (0.091) 0.0032 (0.003) 2.566 (1.796) 2.576 (1.922)
GGU 6 3 2 0.600 (0.215) 0.0011 (0.001) 0.867 (0.347) 0.876 (0.468)
MNT 56 9 9 0.601 (0.067) 0.0014 (0.002) 1.112 (0.525) 1.959 (0.671)
MNT-NW 4 1 0 – – – –
Total 83 14 10 0.725 (0.044) 0.0019 (0.002) 1.566 (0.869) 2.004 (0.624)
Microsatellite (17 loci)
Pop n TNA MNA Ar HO HE FIS
HHH 27 77 4.28 (1.69) 3.97 0.539 (0.239) 0.547 (0.232) 0.0156*
HZ 30 78 4.33 (1.94) 3.96 0.559 (0.244) 0.544 (0.230) −0.028*
GGU 35 86 4.78 (2.55) 4.02 0.495 (0.238) 0.508 (0.232) 0.0246*
MNT 54 91 5.06 (2.46) 4.05 0.523 (0.226) 0.542 (0.225) 0.0378*
MNT-NW 4 35 2.00 (0.82) n.a. 0.300 (0.335) 0.355 (0.270) 0.0185
Total 150 113 7.11 (3.41) 4.22 0.522 (0.224) 0.546 (0.230) 0.0436*

GGU, Galbiin Gobiin Ulaan; HHH, Haniin Hetsiin Huren; HZ, Hos Zogdort; MNT, Mongolian native camels (Aldarkhaan, Zahiin us, Gobi ‘B’); MNT-NW, Western Mongolian native camels; n, number of individuals; Var. sites, variable sites; Hd, Haplotype diversity; π, nucleotide diversity based on the number of pairwise nucleotide differences; k, mean number of pairwise differences; θS, Watterson's theta based on the number of segregating sites; TNA, total number of alleles; MNA, mean number of alleles per locus; Ar, allelic richness per locus calculated for a population based on minimum sample size of 16 diploid individuals; HO/HE, observed/expected heterozygosity; FIS, inbreeding coefficient; n.a., not applicable.

Standard deviations are given in brackets.

a

P-value < 0.001.