Diversity estimation

In order to reduce the error from simply aggregating such diverse estimates, an attempt was made to standardize - as a far as possible - the very heterogeneous data set. Thus, all available estimates were transformed... 

Marine species comprise approximately one-half of total global diversity (estimates range from 3 million to 500 million different species). Therefore, the marine world would appear to offer significant potential resources for novel pharmacological compounds. Unfortunately, much of the literature on marine natural products is characterized by compounds with demonstrable cytotoxicity rather than pharmacological efficacy. 

Note Appropriate data for diversity estimation are indicated in bold. Set A consists of... 

Agrafiotis, D.K and Rassokhin, D.N. (2002) A fractal approach for selecting an appropriate bin size for cell-based diversity estimation. /. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci., 42, 117—122. 

Endogenous level of peptides (pmol/g tissue) Fig. 2.1 Concentration dependence on peptide diversity (estimate)... 

Caron, D.A. (2005). Protistan diversity estimates based on 18S rDNAfrom seawater incubations in the western North Atlantic. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 52, 95. 

Foissner, W. (1999). Protist diversity estimates of the near-imponderable. Prohsr 150, 363-368. 

KUNiN V, ENGELBREKTSON A, ocHMAN H and HUGENHOiiz p (2010) Wrinkles in the rare biosphere pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates. Environ Microbiol, 12,118-123. 

Turner, D. B. (1970). World ookofAPmospheric Diversion Estimates. Cincinnati, OH U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. 

Table 1. Summary of genetic diversity estimates for Pinus contorta...

Isabel, N., J. Beaulieuand and J. Bousquet. 1995. Complete congruence between gene diversity estimates derived from genot5ipic data at enzyme and random amplified polymorphic DNA loci in black spruce. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.Am. 92 6369-6373. 

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