Table 2

Indices of genetic diversity within each mosquito strain

Diversity index

Susceptible strain

Resistant strain

Mean pairwise Jaccard coefficient (minimum – maximum)

0.350 (0.196 – 0.643)

0.331 (0.110 – 0.590)

Shannon index of phenotypic diversity S

0.451

0.275

Nei's gene diversity

0.341

0.207

Percentage of polymorphicmarkers at the 5% level

94.1

58.6

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