Table 3.
Summary of prior distribution parameters, mode, 0.25 and 0.75 quantiles of posterior distributions, and divergence time values estimated using popABC (Lopes et al. 2009) for the European wildcat dataset I, II, and III under three different evolutionary scenarios. The three datasets include (I) samples from central Germany, central Europe (Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, south‐western Germany), and Alps (north‐eastern and Dinaric Alps; (II) samples from Iberian (Portugal and Spain) and Italian (western and central‐southern Apennines, Sicily) peninsula and Alps; (III) cats collected in Italian peninsula, Sicily, and Alps
| Dataset | Scenario | Time | Description | Prior distributions | Posterior distributions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mode | 0.25 | 0.75 | |||||
| I | 1: ((1,2),3) | T1 | Alps versus central EU + central Germany | Uniform (100–200,000) | 41,613 | 21,796 | 61,662 |
| T2 | Central EU versus central Germany | Uniform (100–200,000) | 56,301 | 26,336 | 86,775 | ||
| 2: ((1,3),2) | T1 | Central Germany versus central EU + Alps | Uniform (100–200,000) | na | na | na | |
| T2 | Central EU versus Alps | Uniform (100–200,000) | 124,996 | 94,646 | 156,475 | ||
| 3: ((2,3),1) | T1 | Central EU versus central Germany + Alps | Uniform (100–200,000) | na | na | na | |
| T2 | Alps versus central Germany | Uniform (100–200,000) | 21,279 | na | 51,441 | ||
| II | 1: ((1,2),3) | T1 | Iberia versus Italy + Alps | Uniform (0–40,000) | 5534 | 722 | 10,229 |
| T2 | Italy versus Alps | Uniform (0–40,000) | 13,727 | 6421 | 21,004 | ||
| 2: ((1,3),2) | T1 | Alps versus Italy + Iberia | Uniform (0–40,000) | 10,402 | 5855 | 14,925 | |
| T2 | Italy versus Iberia | Uniform (0–40,000) | 15,447 | 7722 | 23,101 | ||
| 3: ((2,3),1) | T1 | Italy versus Alps + Iberia | Uniform (0–40,000) | 12,116 | 7377 | 16,823 | |
| T2 | Alps versus Iberia | Uniform (0–40,000) | 15,889 | 8271 | 23,482 | ||
| III | 1: ((1,2),3) | T1 | Alps versus Italy + Sicily | Uniform (100–200,000) | 2665 | na | 1113 |
| T2 | Italy versus Sicily | Uniform (100–200,000) | 13,252 | na | 29,679 | ||
| 2: ((1,3),2) | T1 | Sicily versus Italy + Alps | Uniform (100–200,000) | 18,012 | 8481 | 27,767 | |
| T2 | Italy versus Alps | Uniform (100–200,000) | na | na | na | ||
| 3: ((2,3),1) | T1 | Italy versus Sicily + Alps | Uniform (100–200,000) | 16,782 | 6016 | 27,560 | |
| T2 | Sicily versus Alps | Uniform (100‐200,000) | na | na | na | ||
na, negative values of posterior distribution parameters.