TABLE 2.

Genetic differentiation (measured as F_ST) of pairwise comparisons (below diagonal) and associated levels of significance (above diagonal) between nine central and six eastern chimpanzee groups

	A	B1	C	D	L-E	L-W	O-W	O-E	Lo	Bus	Kas	Son	Ngo	Kt	Kw
A		n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	***	***	n.s.	**	***	***	***	***	***	***	***
B1	−0.0018		n.s.	*	**	***	n.s.	**	***	***	***	***	***	***	***
C	−0.0051	−0.0009		n.s.	*	***	n.s.	*	***	***	***	***	***	***	***
D	−0.0003	0.0070	0.0009		**	***	n.s.	*	***	***	***	***	***	***	***
L-E	0.0366	0.0294	0.0212	0.0300		n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	***	***	***	***	***	***
L-W	0.0451	0.0479	0.0288	0.0272	−0.0232		n.s.	n.s.	***	***	***	***	***	***	***
O-W	−0.0024	0.0109	−0.0065	−0.0016	−0.0164	−0.0090		n.s.	n.s.	***	***	*	***	***	**
O-E	0.0372	0.0413	0.0256	0.0290	−0.0012	0.0019	−0.0199		n.s.	***	**	***	**	**	**
Lo	0.0453	0.0552	0.0499	0.0435	0.0132	0.0411	−0.0050	0.0168		***	***	***	***	***	***
Bus	0.0883	0.0906	0.0751	0.0808	0.0481	0.0588	0.0386	0.0550	0.0732		*	***	***	***	***
Kas	0.1326	0.1206	0.1145	0.1356	0.11354	0.1456	0.1194	0.0973	0.1174	0.0321		**	***	***	**
Son	0.0861	0.0913	0.0721	0.0708	0.0481	0.0485	0.0204	0.0550	0.0684	0.0221	0.0538		***	***	***
Ngo	0.1016	0.1102	0.0859	0.0911	0.0460	0.0716	0.0323	0.0364	0.0633	0.0439	0.0539	0.0580		n.s.	***
Kt	0.1163	0.1196	0.0967	0.1030	0.0464	0.0741	0.0378	0.0363	0.0593	0.0457	0.0747	0.0630	0.0018		***
Kw	0.1187	0.1245	0.0992	0.0979	0.0577	0.0802	0.0293	0.052434	0.0787	0.0455	0.0568	0.0609	0.0155	0.0117

(with n.s. = not significant,

^*P < 0.05,

^**P < 0.01,

^***P < 0.001) between nine central and six eastern chimpanzee groups

Pairwise comparisons within subspecies and between subspecies are in italic and normal font, respectively.

Bus = Busingiro; Kt = Kanyantale; Kw = Kanyawara; Kas = Kasokwa; Lo = Loango; L-E = Lobéké-East; L-W = Lobéké-West; Ngo = Ngogo; O-E = Odzala-East; O-W = Odzala-West; Son = Sonso.