Statistical inferences in phylogeography.

Statistical phylogeography.

While studies of phylogeography and speciation in the past have largely focused on the documentation or detection of significant patterns of population genetic structure, the emerging field of statistical phylogeography aims to infer the history and processes underlying that structure, and to provide objective, rather than ad hoc explanations. Methods for parameter estimation are now commonly u...

Statistical phylogeography: methods of evaluating and minimizing inference errors.

Nested clade phylogeographical analysis (NCPA) has become a common tool in intraspecific phylogeography. To evaluate the validity of its inferences, NCPA was applied to actual data sets with 150 strong a priori expectations, the majority of which had not been analysed previously by NCPA. NCPA did well overall, but it sometimes failed to detect an expected event and less commonly resulted in a f...

Phylogeography of the African Common Toad, Amietophrynus regularis, Based on Mitochondrial DNA Sequences: Inferences Regarding the Cape Verde Population and Biogeographical Patterns

Combining Phylogeography with Distribution Modeling: Multiple Pleistocene Range Expansions in a Parthenogenetic Gecko from the Australian Arid Zone

Phylogenetic and geographic evidence suggest that many parthenogenetic organisms have evolved recently and have spread rapidly. These patterns play a critical role in our understanding of the relative merits of sexual versus asexual reproductive modes, yet their interpretation is often hampered by a lack of detail. Here we present a detailed phylogeographic study of a vertebrate parthenogen, th...

Statistical phylogeography: Migrate-N and IMa

Nested clade analysis [11, 12, 13] represented the earliest attempt to develop a formal approach to using an estimate of phylogenetic relationships among haplotypes to infer something both about the biogeographic history of the populations in which they are contained and the evolutionary processes associated with the pattern of diversification implied by the phylogenetic relationships among hap...