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Measurement of biological information with applications from genes to landscapes.
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2006
Sherwin William B, Jabot Franck, Rush Rebecca, Rossetto Maurizio
Abstract excerpt
Biological diversity is quantified for reasons ranging from primer design, to bioprospecting, and community ecology. As a common index for all levels, we suggest Shannon's (S)H, already used in information theory and biodiversity of ecological communities. Since Lewontin's first use of this index to describe human genetic variation, it has been used for variation of viruses, splice-junctions, and informativeness...
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