GENCLONE: A computer program to analyse genotypic data, test for clonality and describe spatial clonal organization

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-17

  Arnaud Haond, Sophie ^a   Belkhir, Khalid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Clonality; Individuals resampling; Locus combination; Multilocus genotypes; Software; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845998160     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: 14718286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2006.01522.x     Document Type: Article

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