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Volume 22, Number 6—June 2016
Research

Use of Population Genetics to Assess the Ecology, Evolution, and Population Structure of Coccidioides

Marcus M. Teixeira and Bridget M. BarkerComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA (M.M. Teixeira, B.M. Barker); Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff (B.M. Barker); University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA (B.M. Barker)

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Table 3

Summary of diversity indices for the Coccidioides posadasii population, Arizona, USA*

Source of isolate No. Different alleles Effective alleles Shannon’s informative index Diversity Unbiased diversity Private alleles
Tucson clinic
Mean 251.444 9.444 3.139 1.288 0.581 0.584 20
SE
 3.158
 1.676
 0.533
 0.220
 0.085
 0.085
Yuma clinic
Mean 9.000 3.333 2.568 0.905 0.480 0.540 0
SE
 0.000
 0.577
 0.473
 0.204
 0.101
 0.114
Phoenix clinic
Mean 128.333 6.889 2.952 1.169 0.554 0.558 5
SE
 1.546
 1.296
 0.560
 0.207
 0.083
 0.084
Soil
Mean 64.778 6.667 3.155 1.257 0.598 0.607 4
SE
 1.103
 1.118
 0.529
 0.192
 0.077
 0.078
Veterinary
Mean 13.556 4.222 2.748 1.044 0.528 0.571 0
SE 0.338 0.703 0.437 0.199 0.091 0.099

*Tucson clinic isolates are all human clinical isolates from Tucson, Arizona. Yuma clinic isolates (previously included in the PHOENIX population) are all human clinical isolates from Yuma, Arizona. Phoenix clinic isolates are all human clinical isolates from Maricopa County, Arizona. Soil isolates are the 66 environmental isolates from Tucson, Arizona, previously grouped in AZSOIL. Veterinary isolates are from various host animals, previously grouped in the AZSOIL population.

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