Journal
INTERFACE FOCUS
Volume 1, Issue 6, Pages 909-921Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2011.0054
Keywords
migration; coalescent; subdivided population; island model; Markov chain Monte Carlo; reversible jump
Categories
Funding
- Cancer Research UK [19556] Funding Source: researchfish
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Phylogeographic methods have attracted a lot of attention in recent years, stressing the need to provide a solid statistical framework for many existing methodologies so as to draw statistically reliable inferences. Here, we take a flexible fully Bayesian approach by reducing the problem to a clustering framework, whereby the population distribution can be explained by a set of migrations, forming geographically stable population clusters. These clusters are such that they are consistent with a fixed number of migrations on the corresponding (unknown) subdivided coalescent tree. Our methods rely upon a clustered population distribution, and allow for inclusion of various covariates (such as phenotype or climate information) at little additional computational cost. We illustrate our methods with an example from weevil mitochondrial DNA sequences from the Iberian peninsula.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available