Making genetic biodiversity measurable : a review of statistical multivariate methods to study variability at gene level

Measures of agro-ecosystems genetic variability are essential to sustain scientific-based actions and policies tending to protect the ecosystem services they provide. To build the genetic variability datum it is necessary to deal with a large number and different types of variables. Molecular marker...

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Autores principales: Balzarini, Mónica, Teich, Ingrid, Bruno, Cecilia, Peña, Andrea
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Publicado: Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias 2011
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topic Córdoba (Argentina)
Variación genética
Estadísticas agrícolas
Variabilidad espacial
Clustering
Multivariate association
Spatial variability
spellingShingle Córdoba (Argentina)
Variación genética
Estadísticas agrícolas
Variabilidad espacial
Clustering
Multivariate association
Spatial variability
Balzarini, Mónica
Teich, Ingrid
Bruno, Cecilia
Peña, Andrea
Making genetic biodiversity measurable : a review of statistical multivariate methods to study variability at gene level
topic_facet Córdoba (Argentina)
Variación genética
Estadísticas agrícolas
Variabilidad espacial
Clustering
Multivariate association
Spatial variability
description Measures of agro-ecosystems genetic variability are essential to sustain scientific-based actions and policies tending to protect the ecosystem services they provide. To build the genetic variability datum it is necessary to deal with a large number and different types of variables. Molecular marker data is highly dimensional by nature, and frequently additional types of information are obtained, as morphological and physiological traits. This way, genetic variability studies are usually associated with the measurement of several traits on each entity. Multivariate methods are aimed at finding proximities between entities characterized by multiple traits by summarizing information in few synthetic variables. In this work we discuss and illustrate several multivariate methods used for different purposes to build the datum of genetic variability. We include methods applied in studies for exploring the spatial structure of genetic variability and the association of genetic data to other sources of information. Multivariate techniques allow the pursuit of the genetic variability datum, as a unifying notion that merges concepts of type, abundance and distribution of variability at gene level.
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author Balzarini, Mónica
Teich, Ingrid
Bruno, Cecilia
Peña, Andrea
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Teich, Ingrid
Bruno, Cecilia
Peña, Andrea
author_sort Balzarini, Mónica
title Making genetic biodiversity measurable : a review of statistical multivariate methods to study variability at gene level
title_short Making genetic biodiversity measurable : a review of statistical multivariate methods to study variability at gene level
title_full Making genetic biodiversity measurable : a review of statistical multivariate methods to study variability at gene level
title_fullStr Making genetic biodiversity measurable : a review of statistical multivariate methods to study variability at gene level
title_full_unstemmed Making genetic biodiversity measurable : a review of statistical multivariate methods to study variability at gene level
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publisher Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias
publishDate 2011
url http://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/3936
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