spagedi: a versatile computer program to analyse spatial genetic structure at the individual or population levels

@article{Hardy2002spagediAV,
  title={spagedi: a versatile computer program to analyse spatial genetic structure at the individual or population levels},
  author={Olivier J. Hardy and Xavier Vekemans},
  journal={Molecular Ecology Notes},
  year={2002},
  volume={2},
  pages={618-620}
}
spag e d i version 1.0 is a software primarily designed to characterize the spatial genetic structure of mapped individuals or populations using genotype data of codominant markers. It computes various statistics describing genetic relatedness or differentiation between individuals or populations by pairwise comparisons and tests their significance by appropriate numerical resampling. spag e d i is useful for: (i) detecting isolation by distance within or among populations and estimating gene… 
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