Table 3.

Genetic diversity of B. tabaci MEAM1 populations collected from different plant species based on six microsatellites markers.

Population	Sample Size	Mean number of Alleles	Shannon’s Information Index (I)	Expected Heterozygosity (Hexp)	Observed Heterozygosity (Ho)	Inbreeding Coefficient (FIS) 1
Cotton	144	4.83	0.80	0.41	0.36	0.23
Soybean	24	3.17	0.72	0.35	0.37	−0.08
Squash	60	4.33	0.72	0.37	0.38	−0.04
Tomato	12	2.83	0.66	0.33	0.29	0.08
Snap bean	36	3.50	0.66	0.35	0.41	0.10
Lantana	24	3.33	0.74	0.38	0.35	0.25
Horseweed	10	2.83	0.70	0.35	0.40	−0.15
Pigweed	24	3.17	0.71	0.40	0.31	0.22
Okra	12	2.00	0.53	0.39	0.32	0.21
Dandelion	12	2.50	0.61	0.38	0.44	0.01
Eggplant	36	4.17	0.86	0.42	0.32	0.29
Tobacco	12	2.67	0.57	0.31	0.37	−0.17
Morning glory	12	2.50	0.55	0.30	0.29	0.01
Mean	32.15	3.22	0.68	0.37	0.30	0.10

¹ Numbers indicated in bold font and underlined are significantly different from zero. Significant F_IS indicates that populations are not mating randomly.