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Shannon diversity index: a call to replace the original Shannon’s formula with unbiased estimator in the population genetics studies

BACKGROUND: The Shannon diversity index has been widely used in population genetics studies. Recently, it was proposed as a unifying measure of diversity at different levels—from genes and populations to whole species and ecosystems. The index, however, was proven to be negatively biased at small sa...

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Autor principal: Konopiński, Maciej K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7331625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32655992
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9391