Table 2. 2C DNA content homogeneous subsets for the four populations M.lutarioriparius by Student-Newman-Keuls analysis.
| Populations | N | subsets |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Student-Newman-Keuls | 1. upstream Hubei | 5 | 3.978 | ||
| 2. upper and middle reaches Huna | 16 | 4.2506 | |||
| 3. upper and middle reaches Hubei | 15 | 4.276 | |||
| 4. middle reaches Anhui | 24 | 4.2942 | |||
| 5. downstream Jiangsu | 21 | 8.276 | |||
| Significant. | 1 | 0.926 | 1 | ||
From the analyses, the four species were distinct and were divided into three subsets. More specifically, M. floridulus and M. sinensis were classified together under set 3, whereas the other two species were divided into sets 1 and 2.