MICRO-CHECKER: Software for identifying and correcting genotyping errors in microsatellite data

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 535-538

  Van Oosterhout, Cock ^a   Hutchinson, William F ^a   Wills, Derek P M ^a   Shipley, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

MICRO CHECKER; Microsatellite DNA; Null alleles; PCR slippage; Short allele dominance; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 4344606590     PISSN: 14718278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2004.00684.x     Document Type: Article

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