Lineage diversification and historical demography of a montane bird Garrulax elliotii - implications for the Pleistocene evolutionary history of the eastern Himalayas

Table 4 Effects of environmental variables on genetic differentiation of G. elliotii populations based on mtDNA and microsatellite data analyses

Variable set	Marginal tests P	%var	Sequential tests P	%var
Tests for microsatellite loci and Nei's standard genetic distance
Vegetation	0.03	66.28	0.03	66.28
Coordinate	0.001	56.66	0.355	73.62
Subregion	0.002	56.35	0.652	77.11
Elevation	0.292	13.79
Temperature	0.444	10.39
Rainfall	0.21	16.62
Tests for microsatellite loci and genetic distances measured as pairwise F_ST
Coordinate	0.01	81.36	0.006	81.36
Subregion	0.005	66.2	0.075	96.66
Vegetation	0.085	70.4	0.09	96.88
Elevation	0.21	18.27
Temperature	0.11	57.4
Rainfall	0.1	28.4
Tests for mtDNA and genetic distance measured as pairwise Φ_ST
Vegetation	0.025	77.86	0.025	77.86
Coordinate	0.028	71.61	0.020	95.05
Temperature	0.075	69.26	0.727	97.77
Subregion	0.071	46.94
Elevation	0.160	30.84
Rainfall	0.031	55.97
Tests for mtDNA and genetic distance measured as uncorrected pairwise distance
Vegetation	0.025	57.44	0.025	57.44
Temperature	0.706	31.52	0.547	73.57
Coordinate	0.588	22.39	0.532	81
Subregion	0.386	23.42
Elevation	0.688	11.24
Rainfall	0.450	11.64

Marginal tests of individual variable sets as well as sequential tests of the forward selection procedure are reported. P indicates probability values and '%var' shows the percentage of the genetic variation explained by the particular variable. In the case of sequential tests, '%var' indicates the percentage of the genetic variation explained by the cumulative effect of variables. The top-down sequence of variables corresponds to the sequence that was indicated by the forward selection procedure.

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