Last year marked the 10th anniversary of the birth of phylogeography as a formal discipline. However, the field’s gestation began in the mid-1970s with the introduction of mitochondrial (mt) DNA analyses to population genetics, and to the profound shift toward genealogical thought at the intraspecific level (now formalized as coalescent theory) that these methods prompted. This paper traces the...

Applying relevant statistical models to empirical data analysis has been considered a very important procedure for scientists answer research questions in the fields of biodiversity, phylogeography, evolutionary biology, paleoecology, phylogenetics, and geography [...]

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The Japanese archipelago is located at the periphery of continent Asia. Rivers in archipelago, separated from Asia by about 17 Ma, have experienced an intermittent exchange freshwater fish taxa through a narrow land bridge generated lowered sea level. As Korean Peninsula and were not covered ice sheet during glacial periods, phylogeographical analyses this region can trace history biota that we...

umail.umd.edu Over the past decade, phylogeography grew as a discipline because allelic phylogenies provided explicitly historical tools for the study of geographical subdivision among populations1.Analysing the relative ages and historical relationships of alleles in a geographical context could distinguish ongoing processes such as GENE FLOW (see Glossary) from previous events such as range e...

We present a novel approach to investigating the divergence history of biomes and their component species using single-locus data prior to investing in multilocus data. We use coalescent-based hierarchical approximate Bayesian computation (HABC) methods (MsBayes) to estimate the number and timing of discrete divergences across a putative barrier and to assign species to their appropriate period...