The statistical rigor of species delimitation has increased dramatically over the past decade.
Coalescent theory provides powerful models for population genetic inference, and is now …

Abstract With almost 2,600 species, Rodentia is the most diverse order of mammals. Here,
we provide an overview of changes in our understanding of the systematics of living rodents …

The multispecies coalescent model underlies many approaches used for species
delimitation. In previous work assessing the performance of species delimitation under this …

One of the greatest unmet challenges in conservation biology is the genetic management of
fragmented populations of threatened animal and plant species. More than a million small …

Species are fundamental units in biological research and can be defined on the basis of
various operational criteria. There has been growing use of molecular approaches for …

This paper provides an overview and a tutorial of the BPP program, which is a Bayesian
MCMC program for analyzing multi-locus genomic sequence data under the multispecies …

A method was developed for simultaneous Bayesian inference of species delimitation and
species phylogeny using the multispecies coalescent model. The method eliminates the …

Recent simulation studies examining the performance of Bayesian species delimitation as
implemented in the bpp program have suggested that bpp may detect population splits but …

Background Molecular methods of species delineation are rapidly develo** and widely
considered as fast and efficient means to discover species and face the'taxonomic …

Species are commonly thought to be evolutionarily independent in a way that populations
within a species are not. In recent years, studies that seek to identify evolutionarily …