Differentiation measures for conservation genetics.

ABSTRACT: We compare the two main classes of measures of population structure in genetics: (i) fixation measures such as F_ST,G_ST, and θ and (ii) allelic differentiation measures such as Jost's D and entropy differentiation. These two groups of measures quantify complementary aspects of population structure, which have no necessary relationship with each other. We focus especially on empirical aspects of population structure relevant to conservation analyses. At the empirical level, the first set of measures quantify nearness to fixation, while the second set of measures quantify relative degree of allelic differentiation. The two sets of measures do not compete with each other. Fixation measures are often misinterpreted as measures of allelic differentiatio

SUBMITTER: Jost L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6050183 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature