Dismantling the Mantel tests

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 336-344

  Guillot, Gilles ^a   Rousset, François ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Geographic epidemiology; Isolation by distance; Isolation by resistance; Landscape ecology; Landscape genetics; Loa loa; Phylogeography; Spatial structure; Type I error

Indexed keywords

LOA LOA;

EID: 84875799635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12018     Document Type: Article

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