Phylogeography and ecological niche modeling unravel the evolutionary history of the Yarkand hare, Lepus yarkandensis (Mammalia: Leporidae), through the Quaternary

Table 1 Genetic diversity and neutrality test estimates of Lepus yarkandensis based on Cytb and nDNA for all individuals, each clade and four populations

Loci	All / Clade	n	S	h	Hd	Pi (%)	R Stat	Tajima’s D	Fu’s Fu
Cytb	All / Clade	219	136	118	0.987	1.382	0.002	−0.111	0.304
	A	92	49	46	0.961	0.334	0.027	−0.049	0.048
	B	36	22	24	0.961	0.469	0.026	−0.081	0.219
	C	25	22	14	0.893	0.269	0.035	−0.119	0.338
	D	8	0	1	0	0	0	−0.079	0.239
	E	35	37	21	0.962	0.816	0.018	−0.069	0.23
	F	23	34	15	0.968	0.719	0.032	−0.072	0.367
	Northern population	49	42	34	0.857	0.336	0.037	−0.125	0.223
	Western population	66	47	43	0.943	0.514	0.034	−0.074	0.059
	Southern population	66	54	34	0.521	0.258	0.008	−0.096	0.084
	Eastern population	38	29	21	0.477	0.325	0.017	−0.088	0.192
MGF		110	6	13	0.855	0.018	0.055	1.23	−3.425
SPTBN1		110	8	7	0.469	0.003	0.15	−1.492	−3.144

The clades, four populations of Cytb and two nuclear gene markers summary statistics including n number of samples, S number of polymorphic sites, h number of haplotypes, Hd haplotype diversity, Pi nucleotide diversity, R Stat Raggedness statistic, and the expansion test results for Tajima’s D and Fu’s FS

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