I would like to evaluate the diversity existing within and among
sixteen maize populations by using RAPD analyses. What is puzzling me is
the number of plants that should be analyzed per population (of course, I
would like to analyze the smallest number of plants that would provide
reliable results).
In order to find this out, I have run RAPD analyses with ten primers
on 100 plants from one of the populations, and I would like to apply the
bootstrap procedure to find the standard error for samples of different
sizes.
Does anybody know of a computer program that would perform all three
steps of the Monte Carlo algorithm for the bootstrap procedure (i.e. the
sampling, computation of the distances and the calculation of the
standard error)?
Thank you very much in advance!
Jon Popi
Crop Science Department
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
Canada
