Reliability assessment of null allele detection: Inconsistencies between and within different methods

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 361-373

  Dabrowski, M J ^a,b   Pilot, M ^a,c   Kruczyk, M ^b,d   Zmihorski, M ^a   Umer, H M ^b   Gliwicz, J ^a  

^a MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^d POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Genotyping errors; Heterozygosity; Microsatellite loci; Microtus oeconomus; Null alleles

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; GENETICS, POPULATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS;

EID: 84894228839     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12177     Document Type: Article

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