The Evolution of Comparative Phylogeography: Putting the Geography (and More) into Comparative Population Genomics.

ABSTRACT: Comparative population genomics is an ascendant field using genomic comparisons between species to draw inferences about forces regulating genetic variation. Comparative phylogeography, by contrast, focuses on the shared lineage histories of species codistributed geographically and is decidedly organismal in perspective. Comparative phylogeography is approximately 35 years old, and, by some metrics, is showing signs of reduced growth. Here, we contrast the goals and methods of comparative population genomics and comparative phylogeography and argue that comparative phylogeography offers an important perspective on evolutionary history that succeeds in integrating genomics with landscape evolution in ways that complement the suprageographic perspective of comparative population genomics. Fo

SUBMITTER: Edwards SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8743039 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature