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SUBMITTER: Robinson JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3695665 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Robinson John D JD Haag Christoph R CR Hall David W DW Pajunen V Ilmari VI Wares John P JP
The Journal of heredity 20121104 6
Genetic datasets can be used to date evolutionary events, even on recent time scales if sufficient data are available. We used statistics calculated from multilocus microsatellite datasets to estimate population ages in data generated through coalescent simulations and in samples from populations of known age in a metapopulation of Daphnia magna in Finland. Our simulation results show that age estimates improve with additional loci and define a time frame over which these statistics are most use ...[more]