Importance of genetic diversity assessment in crop plants and its recent advances: an overview of its analytical perspectives

M Govindaraj, M Vetriventhan… - Genetics research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The importance of plant genetic diversity (PGD) is now being recognized as a specific area
since exploding population with urbanization and decreasing cultivable lands are the critical …

Landscape genetics: combining landscape ecology and population genetics

S Manel, MK Schwartz, G Luikart, P Taberlet - Trends in ecology & …, 2003 - cell.com
Understanding the processes and patterns of gene flow and local adaptation requires a
detailed knowledge of how landscape characteristics structure populations. This …

genodive version 3.0: Easy‐to‐use software for the analysis of genetic data of diploids and polyploids

PG Meirmans - Molecular Ecology Resources, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract genodive version 3.0 is a user‐friendly program for the analysis of population
genetic data. This version presents a major update from the previous version and now offers …

PopGenReport: simplifying basic population genetic analyses in R

AT Adamack, B Gruber - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Using scripting languages such as R to perform population genetic analyses can improve
the reproducibility of research, but using R can be challenging for many researchers due to …

genalex 6: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research

ROD Peakall, PE Smouse - Molecular ecology notes, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract genalex is a user‐friendly cross‐platform package that runs within Microsoft Excel,
enabling population genetic analyses of codominant, haploid and binary data. Allele …

New insights from fine‐scale spatial genetic structure analyses in plant populations

X Vekemans, OJ Hardy - Molecular ecology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Many empirical studies have assessed fine‐scale spatial genetic structure (SGS), ie the
nonrandom spatial distribution of genotypes, within plant populations using genetic markers …

How does ecological disturbance influence genetic diversity?

SC Banks, GJ Cary, AL Smith, ID Davies… - Trends in ecology & …, 2013 - cell.com
Environmental disturbance underpins the dynamics and diversity of many of the ecosystems
of the world, yet its influence on the patterns and distribution of genetic diversity is poorly …

Revealing cryptic spatial patterns in genetic variability by a new multivariate method

T Jombart, S Devillard, AB Dufour, D Pontier - Heredity, 2008 - nature.com
Increasing attention is being devoted to taking landscape information into account in genetic
studies. Among landscape variables, space is often considered as one of the most …

Recent progress and challenges in population genetics of polyploid organisms: an overview of current state‐of‐the‐art molecular and statistical tools

F Dufresne, M Stift, R Vergilino, BK Mable - Molecular ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the importance of polyploidy and the increasing availability of new genomic data,
there remain important gaps in our knowledge of polyploid population genetics. These gaps …

The analysis of polyploid genetic data

PG Meirmans, S Liu, PH van Tienderen - Journal of Heredity, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Though polyploidy is an important aspect of the evolutionary genetics of both plants and
animals, the development of population genetic theory of polyploids has seriously lagged …