Development of Microsatellite Marker System to Determine the Genetic Diversity of Experimental Chicken, Duck, Goose, and Pigeon Populations

Table 11

Comparison of mean observed allele number, mean effective allele number, mean Shannon’s index, and mean effective heterozygosity among the outbred colonies of chickens.

Colonies	Mean observed number of alleles	Mean effective number of alleles	Mean Shannon’s information index	Mean effective heterozygosity
BWEL	2.857	2.024	0.730	0.424
BM	2.857	2.132	0.802	0.485
Beijing oil chicken	4.464	2.821	1.088	0.569