3. Results and Discussion
The authors recognize that sample sizes for this analysis were small thus population genetics estimates
for these four populations should be considered preliminary. The majority of the eight loci sampled
within the populations were found to be within Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) using Genepop 3.1
(when related individuals were excluded from analyses such as in BC) except for Edou11 and Edou216
within both OR and PS and Edou216 within PS. Since these loci were in HWE in the other populations,
and since analysis run without them did not significantly change the results, these two loci were included
in all analyses. Genetic diversity results from GenAlEx were moderate: Number of alleles (A) over all
eight loci was 4.219 (range = 2.875–6.000), average observed heterozygosity (Ho) was 0.445 (range =
0.307–0.515) and average expected heterozygosity (He) was 0.567 (range = 0.506–0.696, Table 1).