Article
The use (or misuse) of microsatellite allelic distances in the context of inbreeding and conservation genetics.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2010
Hansson Bengt
Abstract excerpt
In line with inbreeding theory, genetic diversity at a set of molecular markers may explain variation in fitness-associated traits in partially inbred populations, and such associations will appear as 'genotype-fitness correlations'. An individual genetic diversity index specifically used for microsatellites is 'mean d(2)', i.e. the mean squared distance between alleles. The original hypothesis for mean...
Topics
- Alleles
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Genetic Fitness
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Inbreeding
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Models, Genetic