The statistical treatment of data and the analysis of MOlecular VAriance (AMOVA) in molecular microbial ecology

Annals of Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 95-101

  Mengoni, A ^a   Bazzicalupo, M ^a  

^a Dipto di Biol Animale e Genetica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA); Bacterial populations; Microbial ecology; Molecular fingerprinting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040671716     PISSN: 15904261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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