Development | No. target bands generated (step 2) | Putative allele homology (step 5) | No. loci produced |
---|---|---|---|
Method A | +++ | + | ++ |
Method B | + | +++ | + |
Method C | ++ | ++ | +++ |
Method D | + | +++ | + |
Assay | Within-population variability | Commitment | Â |
 |  | Cost | Time |
SSCP | +++ | +++ | +++ |
RFLP | + | + | ++ |
Indel | ++ | ++ | + |
Locus type | Within-population variability | Sequence divergence | Phylogeographic signal |
EF-1α introns | +++ | + | +++ |
Anon. nDNA | ++ | +++ | ++ |