Genetic Diversity and Population Genetics of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae: Culex spp.) from the Sonoran Desert of North America

Table 1

Summary of genetic diversity indices and results of neutrality tests (Tajima’s 𝐷 and Fu’s 𝐹_𝑆) in the mitochondrial COI gene segment of Culex spp.

Species	𝑁	𝐿	𝑘	𝐾	ℎ (±SD)	𝜋 (±SD)	Tajima’s 𝐷	Fu’s 𝐹𝑆
Cx. quinquefasciatus	28	611	1	2	0.071 ± 0.065	0.00012 ± 0.00011	−1.15	−1.15*
Cx. tarsalis	23**	624	15	14	0.921 ± 0.042	0.00460 ± 0.00069	−1.05	−7.54*
Culex sp. 1	7	611	5	4	0.857 ± 0.102	0.00405 ± 0.00075	1.06	0.28
Culex sp. 2	16	611	8	6	0.675 ± 0.117	0.00218 ± 0.00066	−1.61	–1.81

𝑁: number of sequences; 𝐿: sequence length (bp); 𝑘: number of variable sites; 𝐾: number of haplotypes; ℎ: haplotype diversity; 𝜋: nucleotide diversity; *significant at the 0.05 level; **two of the 25 sequences obtained for Cx. tarsalis (GUY1 and GUY3) contained 558 bp and were omitted.