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Do microsatellites reflect genome-wide genetic diversity in natural populations? A comment on Väli et al. (2008).
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2010
Ljungqvist Marcus, Akesson Mikael, Hansson Bengt
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A recent study by Väli et al. (2008) highlights that microsatellites will often provide a poor prediction of the genome-wide nucleotide diversity of wild populations, but does not fully explain why. To clarify and stress the importance of identity disequilibrium and marker variability for correlations between multilocus heterozygosity and genome-wide genetic variability, we performed a simple simulation with...
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