Analysis of molecular variance

Analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA), is a statistical model for the molecular variation in a single species, typically biological.^[1] The name and model are inspired by ANOVA. The method was developed by Laurent Excoffier at Rutgers University in 1992.

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Since developing AMOVA, Excoffier has written a program for running such analyses. This program, which runs on Windows is called Arlequin, and is freely available on Excoffier's website.

References

1. ^ Excoffier, L.; Smouse, P. E.; and Quattro, J. M. 1992. "Analysis of Molecular Variance Inferred from Metric Distances among DNA Haplotypes: Application to Human Mitochondrial DNA Restriction Data." Genetics 131. pp 479-491.