ClineHelpR: an R package for genomic cline outlier detection and visualization.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patterns of multi-locus differentiation (i.e., genomic clines) often extend broadly across hybrid zones and their quantification can help diagnose how species boundaries are shaped by adaptive processes, both intrinsic and extrinsic. In this sense, the transitioning of loci across admixed individuals can be contrasted as a function of the genome-wide trend, in turn allowing an expansion of clinal theory across a much wider array of biodiversity. However, computational tools that serve to interpret and consequently visualize 'genomic clines' are limited, and users must often write custom, relatively complex code to do so.

Results

Here, we introduce the ClineHelpR R-package for visualizing genomic clines and detecting outlier loci using output generated by two popul

SUBMITTER: Martin BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8520269 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature