2.3. Microsatellite analyses
We analyzed with in-sample deviations from Hardy–Weinberg (HW)
expectations using an exact test of HW proportions for multiple alleles
(Guo and Thompson, 1992) as implemented in GENEPOP version 3.2
(Raymon and Roussset, 1995). To further examine the conformance of
the data to HW expectations, we used Arlequin (Schneider et al., 2000)
to estimate expected and observed heterozygosities (HE and HO).
Finally, to analyze the independence of the microsatellite loci, we
used an exact test for linkage equilibrium in GENEPOP.