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Species delimitation – a geneious plugin for the exploration of species boundaries
Author(s) -
MASTERS BRADLEY C.,
FAN VICKY,
ROSS HOWARD A.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
molecular ecology resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.96
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1755-0998
pISSN - 1755-098X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02896.x
Subject(s) - biology , coalescent theory , plug in , monophyly , taxon , evolutionary biology , tree (set theory) , software , phylogenetic tree , ecology , gene , clade , genetics , computer science , programming language , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Species Delimitation is a plugin to the Geneious software to support the exploration of species boundaries in a gene tree. The user assigns taxa to putative species and the plugin computes statistics relating to the probability of the observed monophyly or exclusivity having occurred by chance in a coalescent process. It also assesses the within and between species genetic distances to infer the probability with which members of a putative species might be identified successfully with tree‐based methods.