The coup de grâce for the nested clade phylogeographic analysis?

Nested clade analysis: an extensively validated method for strong phylogeographic inference.

Why does a method that fails continue to be used?

As a critical framework for addressing a diversity of evolutionary and ecological questions, any method that provides accurate and detailed phylogeographic inference would be embraced. What is difficult to understand is the continued use of a method that not only fails, but also has never been shown to work--nested clade analysis is applied widely even though the conditions under which the meth...

The automation of Nested Clade Phylogeographic Analysis

UNLABELLED ANeCA is a fully automated implementation of Nested Clade Phylogeographic Analysis. This was originally developed by Templeton and colleagues, and has been used to infer, from the pattern of gene sequence polymorphisms in a geographically structured population, the historical demographic processes that have shaped its evolution. Until now it has been necessary to perform large parts ...

Can lesions of ‘en coup de sabre’ progress after being quiescent for a decade?

A Bayesian approach to Nested Clade Analysis

The purpose of this study is to identify genetically distinct clusters of individuals based on related characteristic traits (namely phenotypic data) or geographical locations (namely phylogeographic data). There are 2 main steps to this process: inferring the genetic history of the sequences under study, and subsequently identifying significant clusters according to the phenotypic/phylogeograp...