GST and its relatives do not measure differentiation

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 4015-4026

  Jost, Lou ^a,b  

^a South American Explorers ^*  (Ecuador)

^b South American Explorers   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Diversity; GST; Heterozygosity; Mutation rate; Partition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; POPULATION GENETICS;

GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 51649095312     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03887.x     Document Type: Article

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