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Strong reproductive barriers in a narrow hybrid zone of West-Mediterranean green toads (Bufo viridis subgroup) with Plio-Pleistocene divergence

Caroline Colliard1, Alessandra Sicilia2, Giuseppe F Turrisi3, Marco Arculeo2, Nicolas Perrin1 and Matthias Stöck1*

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1 Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

2 Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, University of Palermo, Via Archirafi, 18, 90123 Palermo, Italy

3 University of Catania, CUTGANA, Section of Nature Reserve Management, via Terzora 8, 95027 San Gregorio di Catania, Catania, Italy

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:232 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-232

Published: 29 July 2010

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Additional file 1:

Table with allele size ranges, number of alleles, within-species expected heterozygosity (HS), Weir and Cockerham (1984) estimator of inbreeding coefficient for each locus and each species.

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Table with posterior probabilities for different genotypic classes (parental, F1, F2 or backcrosses) for the four wild-caught individuals identified as possible F2-hybrids, using the program NEWHYBRIDS.

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Table with distribution of alleles from all seven microsatellite loci in the twenty-six potential hybrids, and summary of STRUCTURE assignment and mtDNA haplotype groups.

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Table with pairwise FST per pair of populations and their respective significance.

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