Launching Microsatellites: A Review of Mutation Processes and Methods of Phylogenetic Inference

From the Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, University of Oxford, Oxford 0X1 3PS, England (Goldstein), and the Department of Mathematical Biology, National Institute for Medical Research, London, England (Pollock). We thank Dr. Stephen O'Brien and members of the Laboratory of Genomlc Diversity lor encouraging us to write this review. D.D.P. is a Hltchlngs-Ellon Fellow of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. A computer program written by Minch et al., which calculates statistics for microsatellite data. Is available on L. L. Cavalli-Sforza's home page at http://lotka.stanford.edu or by writing to Dr. Eric Mlnch at minch6malecot.stanford.edu.