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Table 3 Spatial distribution of mating types for selected PAC populations

From: Sex in the PAC: A hidden affair in dark septate endophytes?

Species

Study site

Number of strains

Fraction of grid points with only one strain

Number of grid points with > 1 strain

Number of grid points and identified mating types

Association

chi-test

significance1

     

MAT1-1

MAT1-2

both

[Q]

  

P. europaea

Bödmeren

28

0.65

6

7

8

2

0.33

18.75

*

 

Creux du Van

135

0.26

35

21

15

11

-0.03

4.41

*

 

Zürichberg

129

0.24

42

20

21

14

-0.22

3.60

n.s.

 

Scatlé

35

0.21

11

2

6

6

0.94

14.54

*

 

Derberence

186

0.19

51

9

30

24

-0.01

5.11

*

P. helvetica

Zürichberg

40

0.64

10

20

6

2

-0.13

12.16

*

P. subalpina

Bödmeren

80

0.46

22

5

25

11

0.49

4.92

*

 

Derberence

36

0.70

7

9

12

2

-0.03

12.80

*

 

Scatlé

115

0.30

30

17

11

15

0.43

3.61

n.s.

CSP13

Creux du Van

43

0.61

9

7

13

3

0.25

12.06

*

  1. 1 * = significant at p < 0.05; n.s. = not significant