Table 4.
Comparison of neutrality and genetic variability of concatenated MLST sequences from Australia and Europe.
| Geographic origin | No. of strains | No. of sequence types (ST) | Length (bp) | Total number of sites1 | No. of polymorphic sites (SNP) | No. of haplotypes | Nucleotide diversity (π) | Haplotype diversity (Hd) | Average no. of nucleotide differences (k) | Tajima’s D2 | Tajima’s D (P-value) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 84 | 69 | 3994 | 3971 | 59 | 65 | 0.00381 | 0.993 | 15.12220 | 0.85368 | >0.10 |
| Europe | 95 | 81 | 4022 | 3971 | 58 | 74 | 0.00365 | 0.991 | 14.47436 | 0.83132 | >0.10 |
1Excluding sites with gaps/missing data
2Tajima’s test for neutrality (Tajima, 1989).