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Table 1 Paternal genetic diversity in various geographical populations of brown bears, based on 3.1-kb Y-chromosomal nucleotide sequences and six Y-linked microsatellite loci

From: Paternal phylogeographic structure of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in northeastern Asia and the effect of male-mediated gene flow to insular populations

Population

n

H

HD ± SD

MPD ± SD

GW ± SD

All brown bears

214

79

0.97 ± 0.01

4.08 ± 2.04

–

Northwest America (NW-A)a

10

6

0.84 ± 0.10

2.31 ± 1.38

0.92 ± 0.20

ABC Islands (ABC)a

11

5

0.82 ± 0.08

1.82 ± 1.13

0.93 ± 0.12

Canada (CAN)a

8

2

0.25 ± 0.18

0.75 ± 0.61

0.89 ± 0.19

Central Europe (C-EU)a

14

8

0.89 ± 0.06

2.68 ± 1.52

0.93 ± 0.15

Northern Europe (N-EU)a

11

5

0.78 ± 0.11

2.62 ± 1.51

0.94 ± 0.14

Western Asia (W-AS)

61

32

0.96 ± 0.01

3.59 ± 1.85

0.97 ± 0.08

East Asia (E-AS)

31

14

0.86 ± 0.05

2.60 ± 1.43

0.94 ± 0.16

Sakhalin (SH)

1

1

1.00

0.00

–

Tibet (TB)

1

1

1.00

0.00

–

Etorofu (ET)

10

2

0.36 ± 0.16

0.36 ± 0.38

1.00 ± 0.00

Kunashiri (KN)

1

1

1.00

0.00

–

Hokkaido (HK)

55

8

0.73 ± 0.05

1.23 ± 0.79

0.83 ± 0.14

 Central Hokkaido (C-HK)

30

8

0.76 ± 0.07

1.26 ± 0.82

0.83 ± 0.14

 Eastern Hokkaido (E-HK)

11

4

0.60 ± 0.15

0.85 ± 0.65

0.75 ± 0.35

 Southern Hokkaido (S-HK)

14

3

0.38 ± 0.15

0.41 ± 0.40

0.83 ± 0.24

  1. aCitations from Bidon et al. [34]
  2. n sample size, H number of haplotypes, HD haplotype diversity, MPD mean number of pairwise differences within population, GW modified Garza–Williamson index, SD standard deviation