Normalization and binning of historical and multi-source microsatellite data: Overcoming the problems of allele size shift with allelogram

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1451-1455

  Morin, Phillip A ^a   Manaster, Carl ^b   Mesnick, Sarah L ^a   Holland, Robert ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b ACTIVX BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelogram; Genotype error; Historical data; Microsatellite

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349909316     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02672.x     Document Type: Article

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