Table 1.

Summary of the number of samples and diversity statistics for mitochondrial DNA control region (mtDNA) and microsatellite markers (17 loci) for southern right whale nursery areas in Argentina, (ARG), South Africa (SAF), New Zealand (NZ), southwest Australia (SWA), southeast Australia (SEA) and the overall Australian wintering habitat (AUS-WH) and ocean basins (Indo-Pacific; IP and South Atlantic; SA). For mtDNA, the sample size (n_m), number of haplotypes (n_hap), standardised haplotype richness (ns_hap), haplotype (h) and nucleotide (π) diversities (with standard deviation, ± SD) are shown. For microsatellites, the sample size (2n), standardised allele richness (k) and observed and expected heterozygosities (H_OBS and H_EXP), and effective population size (N_e; lowest allele frequency 0.02 and jackknifed confidence intervals CI) are shown.

	mtDNA					Microsatellites
Region	nm	nhap	nshap ± SD	h ± SD	π ± SD (%)	2n	k ± SD	HOB ± SD	HEXP ± SD	Ne (95% CI)
ARG	208	28	8.91 ± 1.24	0.94 ± 0.01	2.27 ± 1.16	92	5.37 ± 1.49	0.72 ± 0.03	0.77 ± 0.03	181 (120, 344)
SAF	350	37	9.03 ± 1.28	0.94 ± 0.01	2.47 ± 1.26	94	5.47 ± 1.38	0.71 ± 0.04	0.76 ± 0.03	239 (142, 656)
SA	558	55	10.04 ± 1.10	0.97 ± 0.01	2.52 ± 1.28	186	5.46 ± 1.45	0.72 ± 0.03	0.76 ± 0.03	365 (241, 712)
SWA	16	5	4.44 ± 0.63	0.71 ± 0.09	1.79 ± 01.00	34	5.16 ± 1.25	0.80 ± 0.04	0.78 ± 0.02	195 (61, ∞)
SEA	12	5	5.71 ± 0.92	0.82 ± 0.07	2.17 ± 1.22	24	5.39 ± 1.37	0.80 ± 0.04	0.78 ± 0.02	317(49, ∞)
AUS-WH	77	10	5.32 ± 1.06	0.78 ± 0.03	1.90 ± 0.99	156	5.47 ± 1.35	0.78 ± 0.03	0.78 ± 0.02	286 (169, 792)
NZ	692	11	3.88 ± 0.83	0.69 ± 0.01	1.49 ± 0.79	102	5.41 ± 1.47	0.72 ± 0.03	0.76 ± 0.03	412 (192, ∞)
IP	769	13	4.10 ± 0.90	0.71 ±± 0.01	1.60 ± 0.84	258	5.46 ± 1.37	0.76 ± 0.03	0.78 ± 0.03	331(230, 556)
Total	1327	60	7.91 ± 1.47	0.89 ± 0.01	2.21 ± 1.13	442	5.54 ± 1.44	0.74 ± 0.03	0.77 ± 0.03	-