Genetic Variation and Population Genetics of Taenia saginata in North and Northeast Thailand in relation to Taenia asiatica

Table 3

Genetic diversity and test of T. saginata population, 73 from 4 different geographical regions of Thailand, 33 from 11 different countries and of T.  asiatica, 12 from Kanchanaburi province, and 18 from 7 different countries.

Species	Population	Number of samples	ℎ	𝑆 (%)	Genetic diversity				Neutrality tests
					Hd	𝜋	Theta-𝑤	Theta-𝜋	Tajima’s 𝐷 (𝑃 value)	Fu’s 𝐹𝑠 (𝑃 value)
T.  saginata	Thai population	73	14	11 (1.2)	0.683 ± 0.050	0.00146 ± 0.000	2.263 ± 0.875	1.350 ± 0.093	−1.102 (0.112)	−7.565* (0.001)
	World population	106	23	23 (2.5)	0.686 ± 0.045	0.0155 ± 0.0001	4.194 ± 1.319	1.487 ± 1.002	−1.878* (0.004)	−18.798* (0.000)
T.  asiatica	Thai population	12	0	0	0	0	ND	ND	ND	ND
	Asian population	30	2	1	0.067	0.000	ND	ND	−1.15	ND

ℎ: haplotype numbers, 𝑆: number of segregation sites, Hd: haplotype diversity, 𝜋: nucleotide diversity, Theta-𝑤: Watterson’s theta based on 𝑆, Theta-𝜋: the theta based on 𝜋.  ∗Significance (𝑃 < 0.05).