Hi! I have microsatellite genotypes from an allopolyploid species. Do you know any software that can treat absence/presence data for genetic diversity analysis?
You can use SPAGeDi (Spatial Pattern Analysis of Genetic Diversity) which is a computer package primarily designed to characterize the spatial genetic structure of mapped individuals and/or mapped populations using genotype data of any ploidy level.
As far as you have coded your molecular phenotypes as binary states (that is not taking into account allele dosage) you can use ARLEQUIN to perform several analyses and POPULATIONS to compute distances between individuals and/or populations. However, if you are sure you are dealing with an allopolyploid species I would recommend to try to code the individual genotypes taking into account the allele dosages from the amplification peak areas so that you can perform more refined analyses based on genotypic data.