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. 2015 Aug 11;10(8):e0135310. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135310

Fig 2. Graphical representation of the main steps to infer the number of populations K.

Fig 2

Results obtained by STRUCTURE 2.3.4. (A) Mean L(K) ± SD over 20 runs for each K value. A hierarchical island model was applied on all the 142 strains and the six VNTR loci constituting Panel 1. (B) ΔK = m|L”(K)|/s[L(K)] gives the modal value of the distribution that represents the suggested number of subpopulations among the examined strains, here ten groups.