Table 3.

Comparing Diversity Measures of Reconstituted Microsatellites in Three Species by Kendall Rank Test

Population No. loci No. new alleles Loci with new alleles
No. %
P. leo persica(Gir)78 441417.9
A. j. jubatus 78 734760.3
P. c. cougar(NA)* 841667083.3
Compared population He MV[i]
N τ p-value τ p-value
P. I. persica vs. A. j. jubatus 750.1390.0780.1580.044
P. I. persica vs. NA.-P. concolor 740.0790.3170.1130.153
NA-P. concolor vs. A. j. jubatus 740.1290.1050.1920.015
IDO-P. concolor vs. BCS-P. concolor 840.3356 × 10−6 0.2624.2 × 10−4

[i] P.c. cougar (NA) is a mix of IDO and BSC combined; MV, microsatellite variance.