Table 1 Pairwise FST and ΦST values estimating differentiation across contemporary and putative historical biogeographical barriers between the populations of grey shrike-thrush inhabiting the regions either side of each barrier

From: Pleistocene-dated biogeographic barriers drove divergence within the Australo-Papuan region in a sex-specific manner: an example in a widespread Australian songbird

Regions compared

Barrier

Nuclear intron ΦST

Length-variable marker FST

ND2 ΦST

AB4

DRD4

GAPDH

MUSK-I4

RI2

TGFb2

East-Australia V Tasmania

Bass Strait

0.49 (<0.001)

0.57 (<0.001)

0.48 (<0.001)

0.09 (0.009)

0.19 (0.027)

0.29 (<0.001)

0.34 (<0.001)

0.87 (<0.001)

East-Australia V Cape York Peninsula

Torresian

0.51 (<0.001)

0.00 (0.387)

0.15 (0.288)

0.93 (<0.001)

0.06 (0.153)

0.10 (<0.001)

0.07 (<0.001)

0.66 (<0.001)

East-Australia V north-west

Carpentarian

0.48 (<0.001)

0.25 (<0.001)

0.00 (0.315)

0.93 (<0.001)

0.04 (0.207)

0.10 (<0.001)

0.09 (<0.001)

0.91 (<0.001)

East-Australia V south-west/central

Eyrean

0.50 (<0.001)

0.20 (<0.001)

0.169 (<0.001)

0.85 (<0.001)

0.44 (<0.001)

0.18 (<0.001)

0.07 (<0.001)

0.91 (<0.001)

Cape York Peninsula V PNG

Torres Strait

0.14 (0.216)

0.03 (0.126)

−0.27 (0.991)

0.00 (0.423)

0.05 (0.378)

0.10 (0.091)

NA

0.19 (<0.001)

Cape York Peninsula V north-west

Carpentarian

0.24 (0.027)

0.36 (0.009)

0.18 (0.108)

0.68 (<0.001)

−0.08 (0.991)

0.10 (0.054)

0.05 (<0.001)

0.92 (<0.001)

North-west V south-west/central

Canning

0.09 (0.198)

0.369 (<0.001)

−0.06 (0.68)

0.94 (<0.001)

0.67 (<0.001)

0.46 (<0.001)

0.08 (<0.001)

0.94 (<0.001)

  1. Significant (P-value < 0.011) estimates are in bold. Length-variable marker data were not available for the Papua New Guinean (PNG) range of the species, so differentiation across the Torres Strait could not be estimated using this dataset (NA)