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Table 2 Analsis of Molecular Variance (AMOVA) for mtDNA HVRI

From: The population genetics of wild chimpanzees in Cameroon and Nigeria suggests a positive role for selection in the evolution of chimpanzee subspecies

Partition

Fixation indices

Variance components

Percentage of variation

Significance

 

North (P. t. ellioti) versus south of Sanaga (P. t. troglodytes)a

Among groups (ΦCT)

00.52

10.09

52.41

p < 0.05

Among populations in groups (ΦSC)

00.56

00.84

04.37

p < 0.05

Within populations (ΦST)

00.09

08.32

43.22

p < 0.05

 

DRC versus eastern forests (both P. t. schweinfurthii)b

Among groups (ΦCT)

00.00

00.00

00.00

Not significant

Among populations in groups (ΦSC)

00.10

00.05

10.23

p < 0.05

Within populations (ΦST)

00.10

00.45

89.77

p < 0.05

  1. aAMOVA results of data from this study.
  2. bAMOVA analysis reported by Goldberg and Ruvolo [27]. The samples included eastern chimpanzees (P. t. schweinfurthii) divided into two groups of samples recovered from chimpanzees in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and ‘eastern forests’ that includes sampling locations in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. These two groupings are separated from one another by more than 600km straight-line distance.