Table 4. Genetic diversity of seven nuclear loci of blue crabs populations sampled at the Western South Atlantic.

	Lagoa dos Patos	Tramandaí	Itajaí	Laguna
CSA-121
N	57	33	47	67
H	4	3	4	4
HO	0.2069	0.2647	0.2037	0.1940
HE	0.2223	0.2412	0.3035	0.2524
HWE	0.0091	1.0000	0.0065	0.1133
FIS	-0.0247	-0.0646	0.2878	0.1040
CSA-035
N	54	33	52	65
H	20	11	17	22
HO	0.6379	0.4706	0.6111	0.6269
HE	0.6806	0.5095	0.5877	0.6540
HWE	0.0196	0.2662	0.5659	0.1452
FIS	0.0244	0.0153	-0.0020	0.0097
CSA-073
N	58	34	53	66
H	26	12	21	28
HO	0.8276	0.7941	0.9444	0.7705
HE	0.8024	0.7204	0.7663	0.7463
HWE	0.0840	0.0000*	0.0000*	0.0182
FIS	-0.0089	0.0186	-0.0363	0.0590
CSC-001
N	56	24	40	67
H	13	7	9	16
HO	0.2413	0.1470	0.3333	0.3582
HE	0.5683	0.3679	0.5051	0.6041
HWE	0.0000*	0.0000*	0.0000*	0.0000*
FIS	0.5038	0.6771	0.03572	0.3936
CSC-004
N	54	32	43	66
H	14	10	10	19
HO	0.8103	0.6470	0.6111	0.7611
HE	0.7270	0.7021	0.5869	0.7415
HWE	0.0021	0.0931	0.0000*	0.0757
FIS	0.0886	0.1737	0.1258	0.0963
CSC-007
N	55	28	40	67
H	26	23	26	33
HO	0.8103	0.7647	0.7037	0.9253
HE	0.8843	0.7764	0.7034	0.9558
HWE	0.0000*	0.0516	0.0040	0.0073
FIS	0.0835	0.0301	0.0398	0.0476
CSC-094
N	57	25	46	67
H	5	3	4	5
HO	0.2586	0.0882	0.2777	0.3880
HE	0.2383	0.1374	0.3370	0.3488
HWE	1.0000	0.2086	0.0706	0.9191
FIS	-0.0293	0.2420	0.2671	-0.0313

N number of genotypes, h number of haplotypes, Ho observed heterozygosity, H_E expected heterozygosity, HWE Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and F_IS inbreeding coefficient. Asterisks indicate significant HWE values after a standard Bonferroni correction (*α < 0.001).