Table 3 Statistics to determine possible female population changes in the Ecuadorian spectacled bears analyzed by means of complete mitogenomes.
Mitogenomes | Tajima’s D | Fu and Li’s D* | Fu and Li’s F* | Fu’s FS | Raggedness r (for mismatch distribution) | Ramos-Onsins and Rozas’ R2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ecuadorian total sample ( n = 43) | -1.845 P = 0.012* | -3.258 P = 0.011* | -3.107 P = 0.011* | -19.228 P = 0.0001** | 0.003 P = 0.0002** | 0.051 P = 0.004** |
Northern population (Pichincha and Imbabura) ( n = 20) | -2.029 P = 0.007** | -2.561 P = 0.019* | -2.576 P = 0.024* | -4.669 P = 0.033* | 0.008 P = 0.0015** | 0.057 P = 0.0001** |
Southern population (Loja and Zamora Chinchipe) ( n = 4) | -1.598 P = 0.045* | -1.786 P = 0.046* | -1.783 P = 0.069 | -1.853 P = 0.103 | 0.042 P = 0.040* | 0.118 P = 0.041* |
