A score of 0 stands for complete conservation (completely predictable), high values for high diversity between sequences.
Both genes show high values for gene diversity, indicating a high degree of heterozygosity in all populations.
As shown in Table 1, populations of FCoV strains from blood specimens showed high values for both diversity and evenness indexes, which indicates an almost random pattern.
Considering a subset of the mammal set with high values for length and nucleotide diversity (LP), rate parameterizations still showed a preference for less parameter rich models but agreed notably with AIC in terms of rate heterogeneity and base frequency partitions: +I (56.86%) and +G (37.00%) were the most frequent and UF models (90.43%) were much more frequent than their EF analogs.
In addition, we found higher values for all diversity measures in continuous forest sites compared to fragments.
In the lotic environments, the highest values for the diversity index were recorded during autumn and winter, with both of those periods being characterized by a lower degree of hydrologic instability along with the lowest temperatures.
Analyses of individual lineages showed clear geographic patterns for lineage B2 and B4, wherein higher values for all diversity statistics were obtained in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands, respectively.
Among our sites, embayments in the eastern cluster (South Sandy, North Sandy, South Colwell, and Floodwood) are less impacted by land use than those in the western cluster [ 37], which could explain slightly higher values for species diversity in those embayments.
In many cases the samples were too small to yield significant differences, but the general trend was that the highest values for genetic diversity among all regions were found within ASY, there were medium values in other parts of East Asia, and in SW Asia and Africa, and low in Europe and America.
The instability of 3 MLVA loci may also explain the higher value for Simpson's index of diversity (D) for MLVA compared to the MOL-PCR assay, as large numbers of MLVA profiles are produced as a result of these rapidly evolving loci, which make MLVA less suitable for investigation of long-lasting outbreaks and long-term surveillance.
