Evolution and homoplasy at the Bem6 microsatellite locus in three sweetpotato whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) cryptic species

Table 2 Alleles sequenced from B. tabaci cryptic species

Estimated allele	Species	Individuals	Allele
size	Species	sequenced	frequency*
182	?	1	‡
189	NW	3	‡‡
195	NW	1	0.07
196	MED	3	<0.01
202	NW	2	0.51
203	MED	4	0.07
209	NW	2	0.16
210	MED	20	0.91
210	MEAM1	2	<0.01
216	NW	2	0.24
216	MEAM1	17	0.96
217	MED	3	0.01
223	MEAM1	3	0.04

63 microsatellite fragments sequenced from 60 individual whiteflies (some heterozygotes). Estimated allele size is rounded to the nearest whole number but see Figure 1.
*Estimates of North American field/greenhouse collected Bemisia tabaci Bem6 allele frequencies by cryptic species taken from McKenzie et al. 2012.
‡ Singleton allele, species undetermined.
‡‡ Allele unique to lab colony.

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