Table 3.

Pairwise genetic differentiation (F_ST) between 15 populations of Sargassum horneri in Korean waters and the East China Sea (ECS), based on seven microsatellite markers.

	KF15	KF16-1	KF16-2	KF17	CF17	CF17a	KF17a-2	KF17a-3	KF17a-4	KF17a-6	KF17b-2	K2	K3	K4
KF16-1	0.02
KF16-2	0.03	0.00
KF17	0.08*	0.14*	0.11*
CF17	0.06*	0.10*	0.11*	0.07*
CF17a	0.08*	0.14*	0.13*	0.03*	0.05*
KF17a-2	0.24*	0.36*	0.29*	0.29*	0.23*	0.20*
KF17a-3	0.40*	0.48*	0.44*	0.42*	0.40*	0.38*	0.64*
KF17a-4	0.21*	0.28*	0.24*	0.20*	0.18*	0.13*	0.03	0.51*
KF17a-6	0.08*	0.15*	0.12*	0.00	0.07*	0.03*	0.29*	0.46*	0.20*
KF17b-2	0.07*	0.13*	0.11*	0.01	0.05*	0.00	0.24*	0.42*	0.16*	0.01
K2	0.31*	0.33*	0.33*	0.35*	0.33*	0.34*	0.53*	0.49*	0.47*	0.36*	0.34*
K3	0.29*	0.33*	0.31*	0.28*	0.27*	0.23*	0.47*	0.31*	0.39*	0.30*	0.26*	0.40*
K4	0.35*	0.34*	0.36*	0.37*	0.36*	0.34*	0.49*	0.26*	0.43*	0.39*	0.36*	0.37*	0.25*
K5	0.29*	0.29*	0.33*	0.31*	0.27*	0.26*	0.39*	0.16*	0.33*	0.33*	0.29*	0.33*	0.23*	0.20*

Significant pairwise and P values are shown in bold (*P < 0.05) after the Bonferroni correction. Population abbreviations as in Table 1.