Table 1.
Indices of mitochondrial sequence diversity for arctic and red foxes.
| Southwest | Seward Peninsula | North Slope | Interior | Southcentral | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red foxes | |||||
| N | 91 | 74 | 38 | 66 | 25 |
| Number of haplotypes | 11 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 5 |
| Haplotype diversity | 0.86 | 0.72 | 0.82 | 0.75 | 0.64 |
| Mean number of pairwise differences | 3.1 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 2.4 |
| Nucleotide diversity | 0.0092 | 0.0076 | 0.0086 | 0.0098 | 0.0069 |
| Arctic foxes | |||||
| N | 26 | 8 | 59 | ||
| Number of haplotypes | 7 | 4 | 16 | ||
| Haplotype diversity | 0.83 | 0.82 | 0.89 | ||
| Mean number of pairwise differences | 3.2 | 2.4 | 4.5 | ||
| Nucleotide diversity | 0.010 | 0.0081 | 0.015 |