A spatial approach to jointly estimate Wright's neighborhood size and long-term effective population size.

ABSTRACT: Spatially continuous patterns of genetic differentiation, which are common in nature, are often poorly described by existing population genetic theory or methods that assume panmixia or discrete, clearly definable populations. There is therefore a need for statistical approaches in population genetics that can accommodate continuous geographic structure, and that ideally use georeferenced individuals as the unit of analysis, rather than populations or subpopulations. In addition, researchers are often interested describing the diversity of a population distributed continuously in space, and this diversity is intimately linked to the dispersal potential of the organism. A statistical model that leverages information from patterns of isolation-by-distance to jointly infer parameters that con

SUBMITTER: Hancock ZB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10029013 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature