Table 1 Major features of reviewed software programs



Program

Feature

TFPGA{dagger}

Arlequin{dagger}{ddagger}

GDA{dagger}

GENEPOP{dagger}{ddagger}

GeneStrut

POPGENE{ddagger}§

Diversity
Heterozygosity (observed) {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd}
Expected heterozygosity {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd}
No. alleles/locus {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd}
Effective no. alleles {surd} {surd} {surd}
Percent polymorphic loci {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd}
Shannon-Weaver {surd}
Population structure
F-statistics {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd}
G-statistics {surd} {surd}
ANOVA {surd} {surd}
Rho-statistics {surd} {surd}
Homogeneity {surd} {surd} {surd}
Migration {surd} {surd} {surd}
Isolation-by-distance {surd}
Equilibrium
Hardy-Weinberg {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd}
Two-locus {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd}
Multilocus {surd}
U-test {surd}
Genetic distance
Nei's {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd}
Rogers' {surd} {surd}
Pairwise FST {surd} {surd} {surd}
Clustering
Neighbor-joining {surd}
UPGMA {surd} {surd} {surd} {surd}
Neutrality tests



{surd}







{surd}

{dagger} Performs exact tests for significance.

{ddagger} Program can accommodate a null allele in the data.

§ User can specify an inbreeding coefficient to estimate the frequency of a null allele.