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Species delimitation using a combined coalescent and information-theoretic approach: an example from North American Myotis bats.
Systematic biology - 1 Jul 2010
Carstens Bryan C, Dewey Tanya A
Abstract excerpt
Coalescent model-based methods for phylogeny estimation force systematists to confront issues related to the identification of species boundaries. Unlike conventional phylogenetic analysis, where species membership can be assessed qualitatively after the phylogeny is estimated, the phylogenies that are estimated under a coalescent model treat aggregates of individuals as the operational taxonomic units and thus...
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