Table 5.

Bottleneck signatures in five European wildcat biogeographical groups estimated using the M‐Ratio (Garza and Williamson 2001) and Bottleneck (Cornuet and Luikart 1997) procedures computed assuming 90% stepwise mutations

Populations	Acronym	N	M‐Ratio					Bottleneck
			M	Critical m (θ = 5)	Average M (θ = 5)	Critical m (θ = 10)	Average M (θ = 10)	P < 0.05
Group 1	Fsi‐1	112	0.737	0.775	0.827	0.768	0.815	1.000
Group 2	Fsi‐2	132	0.746	0.779	0.829	0.772	0.819	1.000
Group 3	Fsi‐3	40	0.696	0.753	0.809	0.732	0.784	0.992
Group 4	Fsi‐4	214	0.755	0.782	0.833	0.782	0.827	1.000
Group 5	Fsi‐5	82	0.796	0.771	0.823	0.760	0.808	1.000