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 either 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 in describing the diversity of a population distributed continuously in space; this diversity is intimately linked to both the dispersal potential and the population density of the organism. A statistical model that leverages information from patterns of isolation by distanc

SUBMITTER: Hancock ZB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11491530 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature