Statistical inferences in phylogeography

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1034-1047

  Nielsen, Rasmus ^a,b   Beaumont, Mark A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coalescence theory; Likelihood based inference; Phylogeography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 61649119281     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.04059.x     Document Type: Review

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