Principal component analysis (PCA) and multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) were used as alternative grouping methods, producing three-dimensional plots in which the entries were spread according to their relatedness. Dimensioning techniques were executed with AFLP data after conversion into a band matching table. Automated band matching was performed on all fingerprint entries within the comparison, considering minimum profiling of 5%, with the optimization and position tolerances for selecting bands set to 0.10%. Default settings were applied for PCA and MDS in BioNumerics v7.6, subtracting the average for characters [38 (link)]. All Figs were exported and treated using Corel Draw X8.
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