Scatterplot of the first two principal components of DAPC using breeds as prior clusters.

<p>Breeds are labeled inside their 95% inertia ellipses and dots represent individuals. The inset indicates the eigenvalues of the first five principal components.</p

Pair-wise F_ST among Algerian breeds (a) and Italian breeds (b), calculated with a common set of 15 microsatellites^* (with confidence intervals at 95%).

<p>Ba, Bagnolese; Co, Comisana; Ge, Gentile Di Puglia; La, Laticauda; Le, Leccese; Sa, Sarda.</p><p>*the common set of microsatellites was: MAF65, MAF214, OARFCB304, ILST11, OARAE129, OARFCB193, MAF209, OARJMP58, ILST5, OARFCB128, INRA63, BM1824, MAF33, MCM140, BM8125.</p><p>Pair-wise F_ST among Algerian breeds (a) and Italian breeds (b), calculated with a common set of 15 microsatellites^{<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0122667#t003fn002" target="_blank">*</a>} (with confidence intervals at 95%).</p

Pair-wise F_ST among Algerian breeds (with confidence intervals at 95%).

<p>Pair-wise F_ST among Algerian breeds (with confidence intervals at 95%).</p

Genetic diversity measured by breed.

<p>n, sample size; n Loc. Samp., number of Locales Sampling; GF*¹, governmental farms; RM*², Regional market; MNA, Mean Number of Alleles; R, allelic Richness; PR, Private allelic Richness; H_e, expected heterozygosity; H_o, observed heterozygosity; HWE, Hardy Weinberg Equilibrium; FDR*³, loci in HWD after False Discovery Rate correction [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0122667#pone.0122667.ref021" target="_blank">21</a>] and F_IS, inbreeding coefficient (estimator of Weir and Cockerham [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0122667#pone.0122667.ref023" target="_blank">23</a>]).</p><p>Genetic diversity measured by breed.</p

Genetic structure of Algerian sheep breeds by Bayesian analysis with 30 microsatellite loci (K = number of clusters).

<p>(a) Analysis on the entire data set with increasing number of inferred clusters (K = 2 to K = 6); (b) Graph showing ΔK calculated according to Evanno et al. [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0122667#pone.0122667.ref030" target="_blank">30</a>]; (c) further analysis in the group of “white breeds” (Ouled-Djellal, Rembi and Taâdmit) and the group of the three other breeds (D’man, Hamra and Sidaoun).</p