Journal of Heredity Advance Access originally published online on October 26, 2005
Journal of Heredity 2005 96(6):722-724; doi:10.1093/jhered/esi119
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Alleles In Space (AIS): Computer Software for the Joint Analysis of Interindividual Spatial and Genetic Information
From the Department of Biology, 5305 Old Main Hill, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-5305
Address correspondence to Mark P. Miller at the address above, or e-mail: Mark.Miller@usu.edu.
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Genetic analyses of natural populations have historically relied on statistical procedures based on the concept that distinct "populations" of a species exist across a landscape. Invariably, commonly used analyses reduce to approaches that treat collections of individuals ("populations") as independent/causative variables and allele frequencies as dependent/response variables. Examples of these procedures include Wright's FST and its variants (Excoffier et al. 1992; Nei 1973; Slatkin 1995; Weir and Cockerham 1984), contingency table procedures (Raymond and Rousset 1995; Roff and Bentzen 1989), and measures of genetic distances among populations (e.g., Nei 1972, 1978; Reynolds et al. 1983). These analyses qualitatively or explicitly test null hypotheses of homogeneity of allele frequencies between or among populations.
Although almost universally applied, the analyses mentioned above are not necessarily appropriate in many situations. For example, highly mobile organisms such as large mammals or birds can
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