Bayesian species delimitation using multilocus sequence data.
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SUBMITTER: Yang Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2889046 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Bayesian species delimitation using multilocus sequence data.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100503 20
In the absence of recent admixture between species, bipartitions of individuals in gene trees that are shared across loci can potentially be used to infer the presence of two or more species. This approach to species delimitation via molecular sequence data has been constrained by the fact that genealogies for individual loci are often poorly resolved and that ancestral lineage sorting, hybridization, and other population genetic processes can lead to discordant gene trees. Here we use a Bayesia ...[more]
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