Table 2 : Genetic variation at 24gSSR loci characterized in 25 red bay trees from eastern South Carolina, USA.

25 red bay trees from eastern South Carolina, USA
Locus	Sample Size	Na	Ne	Obs_Hom	Obs_Het	Exp_Hom	Exp_Het	Nei’s	I
RB2	32	6	2.88	0.44	0.56	0.33	0.67	0.65	1.33
RB4	24	5	3.24	0.17	0.83	0.28	0.72	0.69	1.33
RB6	50	3	2.32	0.48	0.52	0.42	0.58	0.57	0.93
RB9	50	5	2.07	0.36	0.64	0.47	0.53	0.52	1.01
RB10	50	3	1.94	0.56	0.44	0.50	0.50	0.49	0.74
RB13	50	4	2.14	0.48	0.52	0.46	0.54	0.53	0.89
RB14	50	3	2.49	0.28	0.72	0.39	0.61	0.60	1.00
RB17	50	3	2.04	0.60	0.40	0.48	0.52	0.51	0.80
RB18	50	3	1.49	0.68	0.32	0.67	0.33	0.33	0.57
RB19	50	3	2.59	0.44	0.56	0.37	0.63	0.61	1.02
RB20	50	6	4.68	0.16	0.84	0.20	0.80	0.79	1.63
RB21	50	5	2.39	0.28	0.72	0.41	0.59	0.58	1.04
RB22	48	6	2.19	0.54	0.46	0.44	0.56	0.54	1.13
RB24	50	2	2.00	0.04	0.96	0.49	0.51	0.50	0.69
RB25	50	5	3.06	0.28	0.72	0.31	0.69	0.67	1.33
RB29	32	7	4.23	0.38	0.63	0.21	0.79	0.76	1.60
RB30	48	3	1.18	0.83	0.17	0.84	0.16	0.16	0.33
RB34	50	4	2.43	0.04	0.96	0.40	0.60	0.59	1.01
RB38	50	6	3.40	0.20	0.80	0.28	0.72	0.71	1.37
RB39	48	12	7.84	0.13	0.88	0.11	0.89	0.87	2.24
RB41	48	2	2.00	0.00	1.00	0.49	0.51	0.50	0.69
RB42	50	10	3.06	0.32	0.68	0.31	0.69	0.67	1.59
RB49	38	15	8.02	0.32	0.68	0.10	0.90	0.88	2.37
RB53	30	6	3.88	0.40	0.60	0.23	0.77	0.74	1.53
Mean	46	5.29	3.06	0.35	0.65	0.38	0.62	0.60	1.17
St. Dev.		3.16	1.71	0.21	0.21	0.17	0.17	0.16	0.49

Na: Observed number of alleles; Ne: Effective number of alleles [27]; Obs_Hom/Obs_Het: Observed homozygosity/heterozygosity;
Exp_Obs/Exp_Het: Expected homozygosity/heterozygosity [28,29] expected heterozygosity; I: Shannon’s Information index [30];
St. Dev.: Standard deviation