High rate of calculation errors in mismatch distribution analysis results in numerous false inferences of biological importance

Heredity

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 511-512

  Schenekar, T ^a   Weiss, S ^a  

^a Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NOTE; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 81355149802     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2011.48     Document Type: Note

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