Estimating effective population size from linkage disequilibrium: Severe bias in small samples

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 303-308

  England, Phillip R ^a   Cornuet, Jean Marie ^b   Berthier, Pierre ^c   Tallmon, David A ^d   Luikart, Gordon ^e,f  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^f CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Effective population size; Linkage disequilibrium; Sampling bias

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DISEQUILIBRIUM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; POPULATION SIZE;

EID: 33745043543     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-005-9103-8     Document Type: Article

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