Table 1 Major features of reviewed software programs
|
Program
|
Feature
|
TFPGA
|
Arlequin
|
GDA
|
GENEPOP
|
GeneStrut
|
POPGENE
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| Diversity |
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| Heterozygosity (observed) |
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| Expected heterozygosity |
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| No. alleles/locus |
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| Effective no. alleles |
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| Percent polymorphic loci |
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| Shannon-Weaver |
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| Population structure |
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| F-statistics |
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| G-statistics |
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| ANOVA |
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| Rho-statistics |
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| Homogeneity |
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| Migration |
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| Isolation-by-distance |
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| Equilibrium |
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| Hardy-Weinberg |
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| Two-locus |
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| Multilocus |
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| U-test |
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| Genetic distance |
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| Nei's |
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| Rogers' |
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| Pairwise FST |
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| Clustering |
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| Neighbor-joining |
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| UPGMA |
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Neutrality tests
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Performs exact tests for significance.
Program can accommodate a null allele in the data.
User can specify an inbreeding coefficient to estimate the frequency of a null allele.
