Phylogeography

Bridge The coalescent (Kingman 1982) bridges ecology and mathematics by providing a probabilistic framework for tracing gene genealogies backward in time ΓÇö enabling phylogeography to reconstruct population histories, out-of-Africa migration, and species range shifts from genetic data.

Fields: Ecology, Mathematics, Population Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, Phylogeography

Kingman's coalescent (1982) describes the stochastic process by which genetic lineages trace back to common ancestors. For a sample of n sequences, the rate of coalescence of the last pair from k line...