AMOVA questions

[Gabriella Scatà]

Hi,

I just started using amova in poppr and I have a few questions:

- 1. if i want to use Nei's genetic distance as distance matrix, can i do it if i select the pegas implementation? and set correction = NULL?

And, is it ok to set squared = FALSE in this case?

- should you set squared = FALSE, if you are setting dist = NULL so that the function computes raw distances itself with dist() --> as far as i understand it computes the classical euclidean distance (already square rooted)?

- how do you interpret the coefficients? they shoud represent the effects on the genotype of the group/pop/individual variance? how to interpret the coefficients in relation to the variance?

Thank you for your kind help!

Best

Gabriella