Maternal phylogenetic relationships and genetic variation among Arabian horse populations using whole mitochondrial DNA D-loop sequencing

Table 1 Populations tested in the study

Populations (abbreviation)	n	NHap		HapD (SD)		NPS		π (SD)		k
Populations (abbreviation)	n	HVR1	W	HVR1	W	HVR1	W	HVR1	W	HVR1	W
Syrian (SY)	114	43	50	0.96(0.007)	0.97(0.007)	44	69	0.0196(0.0006)	0.0142(0.0004)	8.6	13.6
Saudi (SU2)	22	10	10	0.84(0.06)	0.84(0.06)	36	50	0.0192(0.0023)	0.0129(0.0015)	8.5	12.4
Iranian Arabian (KA)	10	8	8	0.96(0.06)	0.96 (0.06)	29	42	0.023(0.0019)	0.0153(0.0013)	10.2	14.6
USA-Egyptian(EG)	24	9	9	0.83(0.06)	0.83(0.06)	26	38	0.019(0.0018)	0.0128(0.0012)	8.5	12.1
USA-Egyptian & Saudi mix (SE)	10	4	5	0.79(0.09)	0.84(0.08)	19	26	0.0199(0.0027)	0.0126(0.0015)	8.8	12.1
USA-Saudi (SU1)	31	7	7	0.8(0.042)	0.8(0.042)	34	51	0.0223(0.0016)	0.015(0.001)	9.9	14.3
Shagya Arabian (SA)	9	8	8	0.97(0.06)	0.97(0.06)	30	41	0.0234(0.002)	0.0153(0.0018)	10.3	14.6
Polish Arabian (PA)	13	6	6	0.82(0.08)	0.82(0.08)	25	42	0.0213(0.002)	0.0163(0.0017)	9.4	15.6
Davenport (DV)	19	6	6	0.74(0.083)	0.74(0.083)	26	36	0.020(0.0023)	0.01281(0.0016)	8.9	12.2
Mongolian (MON)	5	5	5	1(0.12)	1(0.12)	19	28	0.0195(0.0038)	0.013(0.0027)	8.6	12.4
Caspian (CS)	14	9	9	0.93(0.045)	0.93(0.045)	35	54	0.023(0.0022)	0.017(0.0013	10.2	16.1
ALL	271	74	97	0.97(0.003)	0.98(0.002)	60	99	0.022(0.0005)	0.0152(0.0003)	9.7	14.5

n number of individuals in each population. NHap the number of haplotypes resulted in each population. HapD Haplotype diversity with its standard deviation. NPS the number of polymorphic sites. π Nucleotide diversity with its standard deviation. k Average number of nucleotide differences. HVR1 part of the upstream D-loop (450 sites). W the whole D-loop (951 sites).

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