Problems and cautions with sequence mismatch analysis and Bayesian skyline plots to infer historical demography

WS Grant - Journal of Heredity, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Sequence mismatch analysis (MMA) and Bayesian skyline plots (BSP) are commonly used
to reconstruct historical demography. A survey of 173 research articles (2009–2014), which …

The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes

P Librado, N Khan, A Fages, MA Kusliy, T Suchan… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare.
However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse …

Inferences from tip‐calibrated phylogenies: a review and a practical guide

A Rieux, F Balloux - Molecular ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular dating of phylogenetic trees is a growing discipline using sequence data to co‐
estimate the timing of evolutionary events and rates of molecular evolution. All molecular …

Deformed wing virus is a recent global epidemic in honeybees driven by Varroa mites

L Wilfert, G Long, HC Leggett, P Schmid-Hempel… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Deformed wing virus (DWV) and its vector, the mite Varroa destructor, are a major threat to
the world's honeybees. Although the impact of Varroa on colony-level DWV epidemiology is …

DIYABC v2. 0: a software to make approximate Bayesian computation inferences about population history using single nucleotide polymorphism, DNA sequence and …

JM Cornuet, P Pudlo, J Veyssier, A Dehne-Garcia… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: DIYABC is a software package for a comprehensive analysis of population
history using approximate Bayesian computation on DNA polymorphism data. Version 2.0 …

On the importance of being structured: instantaneous coalescence rates and human evolution—lessons for ancestral population size inference?

O Mazet, W Rodríguez, S Grusea, S Boitard, L Chikhi - Heredity, 2016 - nature.com
Most species are structured and influenced by processes that either increased or reduced
gene flow between populations. However, most population genetic inference methods …

Europe's forest management did not mitigate climate warming

K Naudts, Y Chen, MJ McGrath, J Ryder, A Valade… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Afforestation and forest management are considered to be key instruments in mitigating
climate change. Here we show that since 1750, in spite of considerable afforestation, wood …

A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture

M Karmin, L Saag, M Vicente, MAW Sayres… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
It is commonly thought that human genetic diversity in non-African populations was shaped
primarily by an out-of-Africa dispersal 50–100 thousand yr ago (kya). Here, we present a …

[图书][B] Population genetics and microevolutionary theory

AR Templeton - 2021 - books.google.com
Population Genetics and Microevolutionary Theory Explore the fundamentals of the
biological implications of population genetic theory In the newly revised Second Edition of …

Inferring population size history from large samples of genome-wide molecular data-an approximate Bayesian computation approach

S Boitard, W Rodríguez, F Jay, S Mona… - PLoS genetics, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Inferring the ancestral dynamics of effective population size is a long-standing question in
population genetics, which can now be tackled much more accurately thanks to the massive …