A statistical test for the difference in the amounts of DNA variation between two populations

Genetical Research

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 15-25

  Innan, Hideki ^a,b   Tajima, Fumio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; LEAVENWORTHIA; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POPULATION GENETICS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DNA, PLANT; MUSTARD PLANT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

LEAVENWORTHIA; LEAVENWORTHIA CRASSA; LEAVENWORTHIA STYLOSA; LEAVENWORTHIA UNIFLORA;

EID: 0036695810     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672302005748     Document Type: Article

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