Using haplotype information for conservation genomics

M Leitwein, M Duranton, Q Rougemont… - Trends in ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
The particular combinations of alleles that define haplotypes along individual chromosomes
can be determined with increasing ease and accuracy by using current sequencing …

A practical introduction to sequentially Markovian coalescent methods for estimating demographic history from genomic data

N Mather, SM Traves, SYW Ho - Ecology and evolution, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A common goal of population genomics and molecular ecology is to reconstruct the
demographic history of a species of interest. A pair of powerful tools based on the …

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 …

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 …

Contemporary demographic reconstruction methods are robust to genome assembly quality: a case study in Tasmanian devils

AH Patton, MJ Margres, AR Stahlke… - Molecular biology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Reconstructing species' demographic histories is a central focus of molecular ecology and
evolution. Recently, an expanding suite of methods leveraging either the sequentially …

Squamate reptiles challenge paradigms of genomic repeat element evolution set by birds and mammals

GIM Pasquesi, RH Adams, DC Card… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Broad paradigms of vertebrate genomic repeat element evolution have been largely shaped
by analyses of mammalian and avian genomes. Here, based on analyses of genomes …

An overview of current population genomics methods for the analysis of whole‐genome resequencing data in eukaryotes

YXC Bourgeois, BH Warren - Molecular Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Characterizing the population history of a species and identifying loci underlying local
adaptation is crucial in functional ecology, evolutionary biology, conservation and …

Spatiotemporal landscape genetics: Investigating ecology and evolution through space and time

LE Fenderson, AI Kovach, B Llamas - Molecular Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic time‐series data from historical samples greatly facilitate inference of past
population dynamics and species evolution. Yet, although climate and landscape change …

The roles of introgression and climate change in the rise to dominance of Acropora corals

Y Mao, EP Economo, N Satoh - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Reef-building corals provide the structural basis for one of Earth's most spectacular and
diverse—but increasingly threatened—ecosystems. Modern Indo-Pacific reefs are …

The IICR (inverse instantaneous coalescence rate) as a summary of genomic diversity: insights into demographic inference and model choice

L Chikhi, W Rodríguez, S Grusea, P Santos, S Boitard… - Heredity, 2018 - nature.com
Several inferential methods using genomic data have been proposed to quantify and date
population size changes in the history of species. At the same time an increasing number of …