Genetic diversity of selected genes that are potentially economically important in feral sheep of New Zealand

Table 4 Allelic richness (r), expected (H_E) and observed (H_O) heterozygosity, F_IS¹ values for feral sheep populations of New Zealand

Population	Arapawa Island I				Arapawa Island II				Chatham Island				Pitt Island
locus	r	H _O	H _E	F _IS	r	H _O	H _E	F _IS	r	H _O	H _E	F _IS	r	H _O	H _E	F _IS
*KRTAP1-1*	3.72	0.71	0.61	-0.18	3.30	0.14	0.13	-0.06	3.17	0.36	0.30	-0.20	4.24	0.23	0.26	0.11*
*KRT33*	5.96	0.69	0.73	0.05	4.00	0.58	0.65	0.11**	5.02	0.81	0.78	-0.05	5.95	0.59	0.58	-0.02
*ADRB3*	2.83	0.71	0.73	0.03	1.59	0.75	0.66	-0.13	1.94	0.59	0.62	0.04	1.87	0.77	0.77	-0.01
*DQA2*	4.26	0.82	0.84	0.02*	2.96	0.66	0.62	-0.06	4.48	0.95	0.81	-0.18	2.83	0.82	0.83	0.00
Mean	4.19	0.73	0.73	-	2.96	0.53	0.52	-	3.65	0.68	0.63	-	3.72	0.60	0.61	-
Population	Campbell Island				Woodstock				Hokonui I				Hokonui II
locus	r	H _O	H _E	F _IS	r	H _O	H _E	F _IS	r	H _O	H _E	F _IS	r	H _O	H _E	F _IS
*KRTAP1-1*	2.90	0.06	0.30	0.79**	3.41	0.36	0.47	0.24	2.54	0.36	0.31	-0.18	3.05	0.20	0.21	0.03
*KRT33*	4.71	0.59	0.61	0.04	5.49	0.63	0.76	0.17	4.41	1.00	0.77	-0.33	6.12	0.85	0.78	-0.09
*ADRB3*	2.06	0.53	0.51	-0.37	2.38	0.80	0.66	-0.21	1.97	0.55	0.44	-0.26	1.79	0.69	0.61	-0.13
*DQA2*	3.03	0.74	0.76	0.02	4.33	0.94	0.81	-0.16**	3.95	0.67	0.60	-0.11	4.52	0.89	0.86	-0.04
Mean	3.18	0.48	0.55	-	3.90	0.68	0.68	-	3.22	0.65	0.53	-	3.87	0.66	0.62	-
Population	Herbert				Mohaka				Allele richness averages
locus	r	H _O	H _E	F _IS	r	H _O	H _E	F _IS
*KRTAP1-1*	2.61	0.30	0.26	-0.16	3.00	0.33	0.30	-0.11	3.19
*KRT33*	5.04	0.79	0.74	-0.07	1.86	0.57	0.53	-0.09	4.86
*ADRB3*	1.90	0.46	0.38	-0.20	2.00	0.67	0.53	-0.29	2.03
*DQA2*	4.03	0.79	0.79	-0.01	2.00	0.14	0.14	-	3.64
Mean	3.40	0.59	0.54	-	2.22	0.43	0.38	-

¹Significance of F_IS is indicated * P< 0.05, ** P< 0.01, figure in bold character shows a tendency towards significance (P < 0.10); negative values indicate outbreeding while positive values indicate inbreeding; "-" represents data that could not be obtained

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