An overview of the Weitzman approach to diversity.docVIP

Caroline Thaon d’Arnoldi, Jean-Louis Foulley* Louis Ollivier Station de génétique quantitative et appliquée, Institut national de la recherche agronomique, 78352 Jouy-en-Josas cedex, France (Received 10 July 1997; accepted 30 January 1998) Abstract - The diversity of a set of breeds or species is defined in the Weitzman approach by a recursion formula using the pairwise genetic distances between the elements of the set. The algorithm for computing the diversity function of Weitzman is described. It also provides ataxonomy of the set which is interpreted as the maximum likelihood phyloge