A Comparison of Genetic Diversity of COX-III Gene in Lowland Chickens and Tibetan Chickens

Table 2

Nucleotide polymorphism of COX-III gene sequence within 12 populations.

	Populations	Number of variable sites	Number of parsimony-informative sites	Number of haplotypes	Haplotype diversity (Hd)	Nucleotide diversity (Pi)	Average number of nucleotide differences ()	Tajima’s
Lowland chicken	Muchuan	5	3	4		0.00092	0.720	−1.27664
	Emei	4	4	3		0.00209	1.621	1.18115
	Jiuyuan	3	2	3		0.00099	0.777	0.25955
	Black-Tianfu	5	4	4		0.00079	0.559	−1.27905
	White-Tianfu	2	2	3		0.00130	1.022	1.69598
	All lowland chickens	7	4	8		0.00155	1.216	−0.07994
Highland chicken	Haiyan	7	4	6		0.00199	1.293	0.37142
	Doilungdêqên	5	4	6		0.00147	1.152	−0.17397
	Ganzi	5	2	4		0.00190	1.489	−0.63193
	Nyingchi	3	2	3		0.00153	1.200	0.58729
	Diqing	1	1	2		0.00066	0.514	1.37595
	Shannan	2	1	3		0.00057	0.448	−0.24788
	Shigatse	1	1	2		0.00073	0.571	1.44416
	All highland chickens	8	5	9		0.0016	1.250	−0.27902