Using molecular markers with high mutation rates to obtain estimates of relative population size and to distinguish the effects of gene flow and mutation: a demonstration using data from endemic Mauritian skinks.

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We propose a method of analysing genetic data to obtain separate estimates of the size (N(p)) and migration rate (m(p)) for the sampled populations, without precise prior knowledge of mutation rates at each locus ( micro(L)). The effects of migration and mutation can be distinguished because high migration has the effect of reducing genetic differentiation across all loci, whereas a high mutation rate will only...

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