Estimating parameters of speciation models based on refined summaries of the joint site-frequency spectrum.

Understanding the processes and conditions under which populations diverge to give rise to distinct species is a central question in evolutionary biology. Since recently diverged populations have high levels of shared polymorphisms, it is challenging to distinguish between recent divergence with no...

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Main Authors: Aurélien Tellier, Peter Pfaffelhuber, Bernhard Haubold, Lisha Naduvilezhath, Laura E Rose, Thomas Städler, Wolfgang Stephan, Dirk Metzler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3102651?pdf=render