Table 2.

Geographic location, sample size (N), composition of mithuns and diversity parameters in mithun population.

Population	Location	No. of animals	Average Ho	Average He	Inbreeding Coefficient (FIS)
Research- farm (Farm)	Nagaland	48 (28 males and 20 females)	0.25 ± 0.08	0.25 ± 0.07	0.06 ± 0.02
Farmers’ herds (Field)	Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram	24 (11 males and 13 females)	0.17 ± 0.03	0.18 ± 0.03	0.02 ± 0.01

Average observed and expected heterozygosities are indicated as H_o and H_e, respectively.