Reefs in the northern region displayed the highest and most variable nucleotide diversities, whereas, nucleotide diversities were lower among locations within the central and southern locations (Table 1).
The annotations for the quarter of HGCs with the highest nucleotide diversity ("Most variable genes") and the quarter of HGCs with the lowest nucleotide diversity ("Most conserved genes") are compared in Figure 5.
Comparative sequence analysis revealed a high level of diversity in the P1 gene (83 98% nucleotide sequence identity; 87 100% amino acid sequence identity), and the Indian SCSMV isolates were found to be the most variable (up to 9% diversity at the amino acid level).
New-RED cattle represented the most variable cluster due to high nucleotide diversity and fewer ROH (P < 0.001) (Fig. 1).
Although our sequencing strategy for Xpr1 was biased towards sequencing the most variable exons, we found that the nucleotide diversity is much below the average diversities found by Baines and Harr [ 2], with the exception of FraMC1 (Table 1).
Env is the most variable HIV-1 gene, with up to 35% sequence diversity among clades, 20% diversity within clades, and 10% diversity in a single infected individual [15], [16], [17].
Analysis of GYPB nucleotide diversity in the Brazilian population studied (Table 4) reveals that: (a) GYPB shows a level of diversity that is similar to the most variable loci (ABO, SERPINA5) observed in African populations [82]; the most diverse continental human population.
Such pronounced genetic diversity places Albanian trout populations among the most variable in Europe.
The Mhc is known to be the most variable gene group in vertebrates, both in terms of allelic diversity and gene number [ 2].
Sliding window analyses showed nad6, nad5, atp6, nad3 and nad2 are amongst the most variable of genes per unit length, with the highest peaks in nucleotide diversity found in nad5.
