Genetic diversity of microsatellite DNA
The mean number of alleles per locus across nine loci in regions of
Florida was 18.9. The mean observed heterozygosity was 0.688, while the
mean expected heterozygosity was higher at a value of 0.859 (Table 1).
After Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons across all regions,
four of the nine loci showed deviations from expectations under HWE
(Table 1). However, by region and locus, only four HWE tests were
significant after Bonferroni corrections and no loci deviated in more
than two regions (Table 1). Therefore, we retained all nine loci for
downstream analyses. There were no cases of linkage disequilibrium
detected for any pair of loci (raw genotypic data for microsatellites
are available in Table S2).