The phrase "a test for isolation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing an assessment or evaluation designed to determine the degree of isolation experienced by an individual or group.
Example: "The psychologist administered a test for isolation to better understand the patient's social interactions."
Alternatives: "an assessment of isolation" or "a measure of isolation".
A correlative test for isolation by distance was performed with pairwise K2P genetic distance (the same distance calculated by Arlequin for the Fst analysis) and effective geographic distances estimates among sites.
Results of a Mantel test for isolation by distance among populations O1 to O8 were positive, showing increasingly greater genetic isolation with increasing geographic distance (Additional File 5).
A Mantel test in A RLEQUIN was used to test for isolation by distance (IBD).
A Mantel test was implemented in arlequin 3.01 to test for isolation by distance using FST/(1 − FST) as a linearized estimate of pairwise genetic distance between populations and the logarithm of geographic distance (Slatkin 1987).
We also plotted linearized pairwise values of both FST and RST against log-transformed geographic distances (km) to test for isolation by distance (IBD), using a Mantel test with permutations (1000 times) to assess significance in GENEPOP.
To test for isolation by distance, we conducted a Mantel test [62] we checked for correlation between genetic distance (pair-wise FST) matrix and the geographical distance matrix and also the effect of Gaps by using a third dummy variable indicating the locations of the Gaps using the methods described in Bohonak 2002 [63] and implemented in IBDWS (ver 3.16) [Jansen 64].
A Mantel test as implemented in Mantel Nonparametric Test Calculator, version 2.0 [ 110] was used to test for isolation by distance within identified lineages/haplogroups.
To test for isolation by distance on neutral loci, we applied a Mantel test between genetic and Euclidian geographic distances calculated between the 16 sites.
A Mantel test (10,000 permutations) was performed using IBD online software [ 64] to test for Isolation by Distance.
