Thirty-five years of spatial autocorrelation analysis in population genetics: An essay in honour of Robert Sokal (1926-2012)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 721-736

  Diniz Filho, José Alexandre Felizola ^a   Bini, Luis Mauricio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Correlograms; Geographical genetics; Landscape genetics; Mantel test; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84869766896     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01987.x     Document Type: Review

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