ARES: Software to compare allelic richness between uneven samples

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 579-582

  Van Loon, E E ^a,d   Cleary, D F R ^a,b   Fauvelot, C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allelic richness; Extrapolation; Rarefaction; Uneven sample size

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447120221     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: 14718286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01705.x     Document Type: Article

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