Counting alleles with rarefaction: Private alleles and hierarchical sampling designs

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 539-543

  Kalinowski, Steven T ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

allelic richness; estimation; genetic diversity; rarefaction; sample size; species diversity; species richness

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETIC VARIATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; SAMPLING BIAS;

EID: 4544293053     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:COGE.0000041021.91777.1a     Document Type: Article

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