Mitochondrial genome sequences illuminate maternal lineages of conservation concern in a rare carnivore

BMC Ecology

Table 2 Analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) for mitochondrial haplotype derived genetic distances between subspecies, between populations within subspecies, and within populations. Group membership is identified in Table 1.

Source of variation	d.f.	SS	MS	Est. Variance	%	Φ Statistic	Value	P
Among subspecies	2	0.00439	0.00220	0.00012	27%	Φ _RT	0.2715	0.001
Among populations/ subspecies	3	0.00231	0.00077	0.00008	19%	Φ _PR	0.2655	0.005
Within populations	24	0.00792	0.00023	0.00023	54%	Φ _PT	0.4649	0.001
Total	29	0.01462	0.00320	0.00044	100%

%, the percentage of variance explained by each sampling level. Significance of Φ statistics are based on 10,000 permutations of samples.

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