Using allele frequencies and geographic subdivision to reconstruct gene trees within a species: molecular variance parsimony.

doi:10.1093/genetics/136.1.343

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Using allele frequencies and geographic subdivision to reconstruct gene trees within a species: molecular variance parsimony.

Genetics - 1 Jan 1994

Excoffier L, Smouse P E

Abstract excerpt

We formalize the use of allele frequency and geographic information for the construction of gene trees at the intraspecific level and extend the concept of evolutionary parsimony to molecular variance parsimony. The central principle is to consider a particular gene tree as a variable to be optim...

Topics

Alleles
Biological Evolution
DNA, Mitochondrial
Decision Trees
Gene Frequency
Genes
Geography
Humans
Mathematics
Models, Genetic
Models, Statistical
Restriction Mapping
Time

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