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Table 1 Summary statistics of diversity measures for 13 dog breedsDiversity measures for 4 Portuguese breeds and 13 other for which at least 10 individuals have been typed in previous studies [1,10,11,12].

From: MtDNA diversity among four Portuguese autochthonous dog breeds: a fine-scale characterisation

Breed

n

Number of

Haplotype diversity

Mean n° of pairwise differences

Nucleotide diversity

  

haplotypes

haplogroups

   

Castro Laboreiro Dog

58

2

1

0.100 ± 0.052

0.299 ± 0.317

0.001 ± 0.001

Azores Cattle Dog

23

5

3

0.640 ± 0.065

7.012 ± 3.418

0.012 ± 0.007

Portuguese Sheepdog

28

5

3

0.484 ± 0.110

4.780 ± 2.408

0.008 ± 0.005

Serra da Estrela Mountain Dog

34

8

4

0.852 ± 0.030

9.802 ± 4.601

0.017 ± 0.009

German Shepherd [1,12]

16

3

2

0.575 ± 0.112

4.500 ± 2.338

0.008 ± 0.004

Retriever Labrador [1,10]

22

7

2

0.771 ± 0.060

4.554 ± 2.327

0.008 ± 0.004

Basenji [1]

10

3

1

0.644 ± 0.101

2.156 ± 1.304

0.004 ± 0.003

Akbasch[1]

11

5

2

0.618 ± 0.164

3.455 ± 1.909

0.006 ± 0.004

Canaan Dog[1]

17

6

2

0.831 ± 0.056

7.801 ± 3.821

0.013 ± 0.007

Saluki [1,11]

16

8

2

0.808 ± 0.093

7.875 ± 3.867

0.014 ± 0.007

Kangal[1]

10

5

4

0.822 ± 0.097

9.622 ± 4.823

0.017 ± 0.009

Ryukyu [11,12]

14

7

3

0.879 ± 0.058

8.924 ± 4.377

0.015 ± 0.008

Shiba [11]

28

8

3

0.791 ± 0.049

6.717 ± 3.265

0.012 ± 0.006