Table 2 Average proportion of NIS individuals (in percent) and sequence diversity parameters by native ocean region (SD in parentheses).

From: DNA barcodes of Antipode marine invertebrates in Bay of Biscay and Gulf of Lion ports suggest new biofouling challenges

Global region

Average proportion

% BB

% GL

NH

Hd

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North Pacific

3.098 (3.197)

7.58

2.45

9 (10.392)

0.788 (0.078)

0.012 (0.001)

South Pacific

7.251 (6.625)

18.79

21.5

11.6 (17.271)

0.614 (0.407)

0.016 (0.022)

North Atlantic

1.317 (0.751)

3.29

0

3 (2.449)

0.41 (0.496)

0.019 (0.022)

Cryptogenic

0.963 (0.426)

11.18

3.15

2 (1.732)

0.285 (0.403)

0.006 (0.014)

H (chi2):

7.395

  

7.97

2.616

4.015

Hc (tie corrected):

7.526

  

8.141

2.663

4.072

p (same):

0.023

  

0.017

0.264

0.131

  1. Percentage of NIS from each region in Bay of Biscay (% BB) and Gulf of Lion (% GL). NH, Hd and π are the mean number of haplotypes, haplotype diversity and nucleotide diversity for COI sequences respectively. Statistics comparing the four regional groups based on Chi-Square tests.
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