Seven common mistakes in population genetics and how to avoid them

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 3223-3231

  Meirmans, Patrick G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AMOVA; clustering; genome scan; Mantel test; population structure; unicorns

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; GEOGRAPHY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84933279231     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13243     Document Type: Review

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