Microsatellite null alleles and estimation of population differentiation

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 621-631

  Chapuis, Marie Pierre ^a,b,c   Estoup, Arnaud ^a  

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

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Coalescent; F statistics; Genetic distances; Microsatellite; Null alleles; Population differentiation

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NULL ALLELE; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ALLELES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 33847668722     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl191     Document Type: Article

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