Patterns of population genetic differentiation
The highest pairwise values of FST (Table 2) were observed between North and South localities (0.319 < FST < 0.424), followed by those calculated between North and Center localities (0.222 < FST < 0.429) and then by the ones calculated between Center and South localities (0.070 < FST < 0.193). Lower levels of divergence were observed between localities sampled in the same macro region (North: 0.089 < FST < 0.174; Center: 0.010 < FST < 0.152; South: 0.043 < FST < 0.061) (Table 2). All FST values were significant.
Table2: Average FST values for pairwise comparisons among sampling locations ofEmbothrium coccineum in Chile based on a set of 2,155 SNPs.