Table 3. Sampling size and the genetic diversity indices of E. coioides grouper populations sampled from the Persian Gulf and the Oman Sea based on D-loop sequences.

Location	N	nH	π ± s.d.	H ± s.d.	Tajima’s D		Fu’s F
Abadan (Ab)	32	25	0.013 ± 0.007	0.97 ± 0.17		−1.17	−8.34
Bushehr (Bu)	25	22	0.011 ± 0.006	0.97 ± 0.023		−1.07	−7.15
UAE	20	20	0.008 ± 0.003	1.00 ± 0.016		−0.21	−17.28
Bandar Abbas (Ba)	25	16	0.007 ± 0.006	0.87 ± 0.013		−0.59	−2.72
Jask (J)	8	7	0.011 ± 0.006	0.95 ± 0.072		0.93	−0.45
Chabahar (Ch)	8	8	0.012 ± 0.007	1.00 ± 0.062		−0.92	−2.12
Overall	118	101	0.010 ± 0.006	0.96 + 0.04		−1.81487	−23.96

Note:

N, sample size; nH, number of haplotypes; H, haplotype diversity; π, nucleotide diversity; s.d., standard deviation; Tajima’s D, Tajima’s diversity index (Tajima, 1989). Significant values are in bold.