The consequences of the unlikely but critical assumption of stepwise mutation in the population genetic software, MSVAR

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 859-879

  Faurby, Søren ^a,b   Pertoldi, Cino ^a,c,d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d AALBORG ZOO   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Demographic changes; Effective population size; Microsatellites; N e; Stepwise mutation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874869013     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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