Carr et al 2015 Abstract (short)


Genetic differentiation of alternative hypothesis of breeding structure in Harp Seals, Pagophilus groenlandicus [Carr et al. 2015]

Fig. 1 - Distribution of Harp Seal breeding grounds
Fig. 2 - Neighbor-Joining tree
Fig. 3 - Bayes Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenetic tree
Fig. 4 - Time-linearized Maximum-Likelihood tree
Fig. 5 - Molecular Clock calibration for Humans & Harp Seals

Table 1 - Genetic description of Harp Seal populations
Table 2 - Pairwise AMOVA among four populations
Table 3 - AMOVA among multi-population models

The MS introduces two novel non-parametric methods for testing (1) The Monte-Carlo fit of the observed phylogenetic tree to a priori models of phylogeographic structure, and
(2) Differences in the curve shapes of pairwise accumulation of genetic differences between populations. This tests the relative temporal depths of their genetic differentiation.

Table 4 - Monte Carlo simulation

Table 5 - Pairwise Kolmogorov-Smirnov non-parametric test
Table 6 - Multi-population K-S test



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