TABLE 1.
Population genetic diversity, inbreeding and divergence estimates for barn owls of the eastern Mediterranean. The standard deviations of the values are provided between brackets for each parameter except for population specific F ST where values are the standard error of the mean
| Pop | Abbr. | N | # PA | # PA lin. | # mtDNA | π mtDNA | HO | Pop F ST | F IS | F IT | F ROH | β |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italy | IT | 9 | 118,152 (202) | 188,285 | 68 (23) | 0.0021 (0.0011) | 0.164 (0.002) | 0.058 (0.005) | ‐–.024 (0.012) | 0.014 (0.009) | 0.028 (0.01) | 0.112 (0.007) |
| Ionian Islands | IO | 5 | 46,340 | 239,089 (294) | 87 | 0.0021 (0.0013) | 0.16 (0.004) | 0.091 (0.004) | –0.039 (0.027) | 0.019 (0.02) | 0.067 (0.02) | 0.143 (0.041) |
| Greece | GR | 10 | 73,108 (220) | 86 (19) | 0.0021 (0.0012) | 0.165 (0.005) | 0.047 (0.003) | –0.02 (0.029) | 0 (0.022) | 0.038 (0.02) | 0.101 (0.008) | |
| Aegean Islands | AE | 11 | 79,357 (198) | 81 (18) | 0.0023 (0.0012) | 0.164 (0.01) | 0.038 (0.002) | 0 (0.059) | 0.013 (0.049) | 0.043 (0.03) | 0.092 (0.014) | |
| Crete | CT | 11 | 82,202 (177) | 124,440 (129) | 51 (24) | 0.0013 (0.0007) | 0.153 (0.006) | 0.115 (0.005) | –0.018 (0.037) | 0.05 (0.034) | 0.086 (0.04) | 0.165 (0.024) |
| Cyprus | CY | 10 | 121,550 (196) | 177,675 (113) | 72 (22) | 0.002 (0.001) | 0.165 (0.008) | 0.061 (0.005) | –0.032 (0.05) | 0.029 (0.039) | 0.04 (0.03) | 0.114 (0.024) |
| Israel | IS | 9 | 271,400 (235) | 413,375 | 43 (20) | 0.0013 (0.0007) | 0.175 (0.003) | 0.007 (0.003) | –0.035 (0.016) | 0.027 (0.008) | 0.019 (0.01) | 0.063 (0.012) |
N, number of individuals in the population; #PA, private alleles per population, bootstrapped to the smallest N of 5 individuals; #PA lin., private alleles per lineage of K = 5 identified with sNMF, bootstrapped to the smallest N of 9 individuals; #mtDNA, mitochondrial polymorphic sites per population, bootstrapped to the smallest N of 5 individuals; π mtDNA, mitochondrial nucleotide diversity; H O, observed heterozygosity; F ST, population specific F ST as in Weir and Goudet (2017) bootstrapped over 100 blocks of contiguous SNP; F IS, population level inbreeding coefficient; F IT, mean individual inbreeding coefficient relative to the meta‐population; F ROH, mean inbreeding coefficient estimated from ROH; β, mean pairwise relatedness within population.