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Table 1 Age and diversity of European Lasius neglectus populations. Population name, country and year of discovery; A, population size in square kilometres; CHC var, within-population variation of cuticular hydrocarbon profiles; P, number of polymorphic loci (out of six microsatellite loci); k', average allelic richness across all loci; DH/sd, standardised difference between the expected heterozygosity under mutation-drift equilibrium and observed heterozygosity; M, ratio between allele number and range. The latter two estimates are averages across polymorphic loci. Bold figures indicate significances in individual tests, whereas asterisks indicate significance levels after sequential Bonferroni correction for multiple tests: *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01.

From: The introduction history of invasive garden ants in Europe: Integrating genetic, chemical and behavioural approaches

Population

Year

A

CHC var

P

k' ± SE

DH/sd ± SE

M

Ghent, Belgium

1978

0.57

10.797

4

3.37 ± 1.02

-0.23 ± 0.39

0.576

Seva, Spain

1985

0.20

8.413

4

3.21 ± 1.15

-0.23 ± 0.36

0.625

Paris, France

1986

0.57

12.538

5

3.62 ± 1.09

0.45 ± 0.37

0.742

Budapest, Hungary

1988

0.20

4.777

5

3.11 ± 0.77

-1.88 ± 0.71

0.603

Toulouse, France

1995

0.01

5.566

3

2.92 ± 0.97

-0.28 ± 0.81

0.560

Warsaw, Poland

1995

0.04

4.691

3

2.29 ± 0.64

0.43 ± 0.35

0.694

Bellaterra, Spain

1997

0.14

3.498

3

1.66 ± 0.33

0.34 ± 0.73

0.756

Debrecen, Hungary

1997

0.08

3.338

2

1.80 ± 0.52

-0.94 ± 1.33

0.563

Jena, Germany

1997

0.14

5.796

5

2.49 ± 0.42

1.06* ± 0.15

0.503*

Volterra, Italy

1997

0.04

3.141

3

2.14 ± 0.58

-0.86 ± 0.43

0.720

Bayramiç, Turkey

2003

0.01

7.730

3

2.16 ± 0.54

0.35 ± 0.20

0.338**

Edirne 1, Turkey

2003

0.05

8.545

4

2.91 ± 0.83

0.19 ± 0.51

0.600

Edirne 2, Turkey

2003

0.03

2.405

3

2.84 ± 0.94

-1.28 ± 1.36

0.551

Edirne 3, Turkey

2003

0.02

7.100

3

2.55 ± 0.77

-0.25 ± 0.60

0.419*