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SpedeSTEM: a rapid and accurate method for species delimitation
Abstract
We describe a software package (SpedeSTEM) that allows researchers to conduct a species delimitation analysis using intraspecific genetic data. Our method operates under the assumption that a priori information regarding group membership is available, for example that samples are drawn from some number of described subspecies, races or distinct morphotypes. SpedeSTEM proceeds by calculating the maximum likelihood species tree from all hierarchical arrangements of the sampled alleles and uses information theory to quantify the model probability of each permutation. SpedeSTEM is tested here against empirical and simulated data; results indicate that evolutionary lineages that diverged as few as 0.5N generations in the past can be validated as distinct using sequence data from little as five loci. This work enables speciation investigations to identify lineages that are evolutionarily distinct and thus have the potential to form new species before these lineages acquire secondary characteristics such as reproductive isolation or morphological differentiation that are commonly used to define species.
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Bayesian inference of species trees from multilocus data
Heled, J., & Drummond, A. J. (2010) · Molecular Biology and Evolution · doi:10.1093/molbev/msp274 · Cited by 2,453
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“…of phylogenetic uncertainty that can influence the estimation of the species tree is the uncertainty in the inference of the gene trees themselves; this uncertainty can be assessed using conventional approaches, such as nodal support (Felsenstein 1985) or parametric bootstrapping (Goldman 1993).”
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- Authors
- ENCE, D. D., & CARSTENS, B. C.
- Venue
- Molecular Ecology Resources
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-12-02
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 473-480
- ISSN
- 1755-098X (ISSN-L)
- 1755-0998
- OpenAlex
- W2100966987
- Cited by
- 249
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 7.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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