The IWC Scientific Committee recently adopted guidelines for quality control of DNA data. Once data have been collected, the next step is to analyse and make inferences that are useful addressing practical problems in conservation management cetaceans. This a complex exercise, as numerous analyses possible users wide range choices software programs implementing analyses. paper reviews underlyin...

An important step in plant breeding programs is identification of parents that are geneticallydistant from each other, to find crossing combinations with better prospects of hybrid vigor. Thepotential of identifying genetically distant parents depends on genetic diversity of population. 58 linesof rice from diverse origins have been employed to study genetic variation in order to identify themo...