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Maximum Likelihood Estimates Of Species Trees: How Accuracy Of Phylogenetic Inference Depends Upon The Divergence History And Sampling Design, John Mccormack, Huateng Huang, L. Knowles
Maximum Likelihood Estimates Of Species Trees: How Accuracy Of Phylogenetic Inference Depends Upon The Divergence History And Sampling Design, John Mccormack, Huateng Huang, L. Knowles
John E. McCormack
The understanding that gene trees are often in discord with each other and with the species trees that contain them has led researchers to methods that incorporate the inherent stochasticity of genetic processes in the phylogenetic estimation procedure. Recently developed methods for species-tree estimation that not only consider the retention and sorting of ancestral polymorphism but also quantify the actual probabilities of incomplete lineage sorting are expected to provide an improvement over earlier summary-statistic based approaches that discard much of the information content of gene trees. However, these new methods have yet to be tested on truly challenging evolutionary histories …
Landscape Genetics Of California Mule Deer (Odocoileus Hemionus): The Roles Of Ecological And Historical Factors In Generating Differentiation, Katherine Pease, Adam Freedman, John Pollinger, John Mccormack, Wolfgang Buermann, Jeff Rodzen, Jim Banks, Erin Meredith, Vernon Bleich, Robert Schaefer, Ken Jones, Robert Wayne
Landscape Genetics Of California Mule Deer (Odocoileus Hemionus): The Roles Of Ecological And Historical Factors In Generating Differentiation, Katherine Pease, Adam Freedman, John Pollinger, John Mccormack, Wolfgang Buermann, Jeff Rodzen, Jim Banks, Erin Meredith, Vernon Bleich, Robert Schaefer, Ken Jones, Robert Wayne
John E. McCormack
Landscape genetics is an emerging discipline that utilizes environmental and historical data to understand geographic patterns of genetic diversity. Niche modelling has added a new dimension to such efforts by allowing species–environmental associations to be projected into the past so that hypotheses about historical vicariance can be generated and tested independently with genetic data. However, previous approaches have primarily utilized DNA sequence data to test inferences about historical isolation and may have missed very recent episodes of environmentally mediated divergence. We type 15 microsatellite loci in California mule deer and identify five genetic groupings through a Structure analysis that are …