Table 3.
Indices of genetic diversity (averages) for bighorn sheep ( Ovis canadensis ) genetic clusters, approximating subspecies, for both microsatellites (left) and mitochondrial DNA (right). The diversity indices used are as follows: A = alleles per locus; AR = allelic richness; HE = expected heterozygosity; HO = observed heterozygosity; FIS = inbreeding coefficient; Hn = number of haplotypes; Hd = haplotype diversity; π = nucleotide diversity.
| Genetic cluster | Microsatellites | mtDNA | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | A | A R | H E | H O | F IS | n | H n | H d | π | |
| Sierra Nevada | 52 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 0.39 | 0.37 | 0.03 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Peninsular | 187 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 0.54 | 0.50 | 0.09 a | 175 | 10 | 0.76 | 0.0128 |
| Nelson | 288 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 0.68 | 0.53 | 0.21 a | 279 | 30 | 0.87 | 0.0126 |
| Mexican | 180 | 6.2 | 6.3 | 0.60 | 0.53 | 0.13 a | 170 | 25 | 0.91 | 0.0119 |
| Rocky Mountain | 97 | 6.4 | 6.8 | 0.64 | 0.58 | 0.10 a | 87 | 10 | 0.73 | 0.0073 |
a Deviation from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (homozygote excess) indicated by P ≤ 0.001.