Kgtests: A simple Excel Macro program to detect signatures of population expansion using microsatellites: Program note

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 416-417

  Bilgin, Raşit ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

g test; k test; Macro; Microsatellites; MS Excel; Population expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248215704     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: 14718286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2006.01671.x     Document Type: Article

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