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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |