Estimating allelic richness: Effects of sample size and bottlenecks

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2445-2449

  Leberg, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alleles per locus; Allelic diversity; Bottleneck; Randomization; Rarefaction; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; POPULATION GENETICS; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALLELES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SELECTION BIAS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036845219     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2002.01612.x     Document Type: Article

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