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Five-leaf Generalizations of the D-statistic Reveal the Directionality of Admixture.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Nov 2024
Leppälä Kalle, da Silva Coelho Flavio Augusto, Richter Michaela, Albert Victor A, Lindqvist Charlotte
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Over the past 15 years, the D-statistic, a four-taxon test for organismal admixture (hybridization, or introgression) which incorporates single nucleotide polymorphism data with allelic patterns ABBA and BABA, has seen considerable use. This statistic seeks to discern significant deviation from either a given species tree assumption, or from the balanced incomplete lineage sorting that could otherwise defy this...
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