Species delimitation with abc and other coalescent-based methods: A test of accuracy with simulations and an empirical example with lizards of the liolaemus darwinii complex (Squamata: Liolaemidae)

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2834-2849

  Camargo, Arley ^a   Morando, Mariana ^b   Avila, Luciano J ^b   Sites, Jack W ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Divergence; Gene flow; Gene trees; Simulation; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COALESCENCE; DATA SET; DIVERGENCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIZARD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; LIZARD; MALE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; LIZARDS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

LIOLAEMINAE; LIOLAEMUS DARWINII; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84865736697     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01640.x     Document Type: Article

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