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Table 1 Diversity in avocado trees grown from seeds in eight districts in southern highlands of Tanzania

From: Genetic diversity of avocado from the southern highlands of Tanzania as revealed by microsatellite markers

Locus name

Repeats

Na

Ne

Ho

He

I

HW

PIC

AVAG05a

(AG)10

17

3.84

0.54

0.74

1.73

***

0.70

AVAG22a

(GA)15

23

9.59

0.71

0.90

2.59

***

0.89

AVMIX01a

(AT)7,(AG)12

16

8.96

0.68

0.89

2.40

***

0.88

ESTAVGA03b

(TC)20

14

8.32

0.78

0.88

2.31

***

0.87

LMAV02 b

(AC)8(AG)14

20

6.81

0.54

0.85

2.30

***

0.84

LMAV14 b

(AGAGGG)4(AG)3

19

7.94

0.46

0.87

2.33

***

0.86

LMAV24 b

(AG)15

11

4.34

0.69

0.77

1.79

*

0.75

LMAV29 b

(CTT)8(CT)11

20

7.35

0.67

0.86

2.32

NS

0.85

LMAV31 b

(GA)21

17

7.02

0.82

0.86

2.20

NS

0.84

LMAV35 b

(GAA)5(GA)14

10

3.99

0.62

0.75

1.69

*

0.72

Mean

 

16.70

6.81

0.65

0.84

2.17

 

0.82

Standard error

 

1.30

0.66

0.04

0.02

0.10

 

0.02

  1. *, ** and *** indicate significance of p value at p < 0.05, ≤0.01 and ≤ 0.001, respectively whereas NS indicates the non-significance of the p value after Bonferroni correction. a = from [24] b = from [25]
  2. Na: Observed number of alleles
  3. Ne: Effective number of alleles [26]
  4. Ho: Observed heterozygosity
  5. He: Nei’s [27] expected heterozygosity
  6. I: Shannon information index [28]
  7. HW: Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test
  8. PIC: Polymorphism information content