Harnessing paleo-environmental modeling and genetic data to predict intraspecific genetic structure.

ABSTRACT: Spatially explicit simulations of gene flow within complex landscapes could help forecast the responses of populations to global and anthropological changes. Simulating how past climate change shaped intraspecific genetic variation can provide a validation of models in anticipation of their use to predict future changes. We review simulation models that provide inferences on population genetic structure. Existing simulation models generally integrate complex demographic and genetic processes but are less focused on the landscape dynamics. In contrast to previous approaches integrating detailed demographic and genetic processes and only secondarily landscape dynamics, we present a model based on parsimonious biological mechanisms combining habitat suitability and cellular processes, applica

SUBMITTER: Yannic G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7359836 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature