Rhh: An R extension for estimating multilocus heterozygosity and heterozygosity-heterozygosity correlation

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 720-722

  Alho, Jussi S ^a   Välimäki, Kaisa ^a   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Heterozygosity heterozygosity correlation; Homozygosity; Inbreeding; Internal relatedness; Multilocus heterozygosity; Standardized heterozygosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954732452     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02830.x     Document Type: Note

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