Palghat gap reveals presence of two diverged populations of Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius) in Western Ghats, India

Figures & data

Figure 1. Phylogenetic tree (Bayesian) showing a divergence between two populations (North (A) and South (B) of Palghat Gap) of Nilgiri tahr in the Western Ghats, India (elevation profile adapted from Robin et al. 2010).

Table 1. Observed diversity and neutrality indices for the Nilgiri tahr population in the Western Ghats, India in comparison with other species of Bovidae.

Species	N	V	FST	SD	Hd	π	Tajima’s D	Fu’s Fs	Gene (bp)	Source
Hemitragus hylocrius	26	2	1.000; p = .000	0.007	0.520	0.00337	2.10822; p < .05	3.337	Cytb (381)	Present study
Gazella subgutturosa	102	–	0.57887	0.003	0.855	0.00224	–2.16917; p < .05	–41.95	Cytb (1140)	Tanchenge et al. (2016)
Gazella dorcas	28	10	–	–	0.802	0.01590	–	–	Cytb (790)	Hadas et al. (2015)
Gazella gazelle	54	21	–	–	0.937	0.00470	–	–	Cytb (790)	Hadas et al. (2015)
Gazella arabica acacia	11	2	–	–	0.327	0.00510	–	–	Cytb (790)	Hadas et al. (2015)
Pseudois nayaur	31		–		0.998 (0.009)	0.023 (0.001)	–	–	Cytb (1140)	Zeng et al. (2008)
Procapra picticaudata		113	–	–	0.88	0.060	–		Cyt b (425)	Zhang and Jiang (2006)
		46	–	–	0.975	0.081	0.043(0.506)	0.971 (0.712)	CR (570–720)
Procapra picticaudata	51	–	–	–	0.97560.014	0.10560.01	0.377 (0.1)	0.971 (0.712)	CR (580)	Zhang et al. (2013)
Pantholops hodgsonii	118	–	–	–	0.99160.003	0.02560.10	0.971 (0.712)	224.08 (0.001)	CR (580)
Capricornis swinhoei	–	90	–	–	0.930	0.02830	0.73740	–	CR (1014–1096)	Liu et al. (2013)
Capricornis sumatraensis	–	78	–	–	0.895	0.02490	0.22641	–
Capricornis crispus	–	71	–	–	0.983	0.01760	–0.31634	–
Pseudois nayaur	–	–	–	–	0.990	–	–1.39364; p > .10	–3.077; p<.01	Cyt b/CR (1694)	Tan et al. (2012)
Pseudois nayaur	31		–		0.998 (0.009	0.023 (0.001)	–	–	Cytb (1140)	Zeng et al. (2008)
	–	–	–	–	0.0993 (0.081)	0.108 (0.002)	–	–	CR (1227)
Ovis ammon	–	–	–	–	–	0.0054	–	–	ND5 (556)	Tserenbataa et al. (2004)

Values in the parenthesis are base pair size of the mitochondrial region used.

N: number of sequences; V: number of variable sites; F_ST: population differentiation; Hd: haplotype diversity; π: nucleotide diversity; SD: sequence divergence; D: Tajima’s test statistic.

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