Nei's standard genetic distance

Nei's standard genetic distance

Nei's standard genetic distance is a measure of differentiation among closely related taxa. [Loeschcke, 1994] In the field of genetics this mathematical measure is used to understand the degree of genetic separation betwixt species at a molecular level.

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* Volker Loeschcke, Jürgen Tomiuk and Subodh K. Jain (1994) "Conservation Genetics", Published by Birkhäuser, 440 pages ISBN 3764329394


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