Phylogeographic model selection leads to insight into the evolutionary history of four-eyed frogs.

ABSTRACT: Phylogeographic research investigates biodiversity at the interface between populations and species, in a temporal and geographic context. Phylogeography has benefited from analytical approaches that allow empiricists to estimate parameters of interest from the genetic data (e.g., θ = 4Neμ, population divergence, gene flow), and the widespread availability of genomic data allow such parameters to be estimated with greater precision. However, the actual inferences made by phylogeographers remain dependent on qualitative interpretations derived from these parameters' values and as such may be subject to overinterpretation and confirmation bias. Here we argue in favor of using an objective approach to phylogeographic inference that proceeds by calculating the probability of multiple demograph

SUBMITTER: Thome MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4961127 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature