Table 6.

P values of T-test for populations (upper part) and geographic regions (lower part) computed on Shannon’s index values and variances of the 10 populations that resulted from PCA analysis using bootstrapped method.

	Pop01	Pop02	Pop03	Pop04	Pop05	Pop06	Pop07	Pop08	Pop09
Pop02	0.001**
Pop03	0.004**	0.033
Pop04	0.003**	0.026*	0.883
Pop05	0.002**	0.069	0.708	0.800
Pop06	0.008**	0.004**	0.005**	0.005**	0.005**
Pop07	0.025*	0.004**	0.181	0.127	0.094*	0.007**
Pop08	0.003**	0.033*	0.949	0.832	0.666	0.005**	0.206
Pop09	0.002**	0.107	0.532	0.600	0.800	0.005**	0.060	0.499
Pop10	0.162	0.003**	0.029*	0.022*	0.016*	0.010*	0.271	0.034*	0.011*

	Africa	Asia	Europe
Asia	0.004**
Europe	0.003**	0.003**
Australia	0.003**	0.268ns	0.002**

**P < 0.01; *P ≤ 0.05; ns = not significant. P-values obtained using Bowman’s method were all >0.05 (data not presented).