Costa, RJ;
Wilkinson-Herbots, HM;
(2021)
Inference of gene flow in the process of speciation: Efficient maximum-likelihood implementation of a generalised isolation-with-migration model.
Theoretical Population Biology
, 140
pp. 1-15.
10.1016/j.tpb.2021.03.001.
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Abstract
The 'isolation with migration' (IM) model has been extensively used in the literature to detect gene flow during the process of speciation. In this model, an ancestral population split into two or more descendant populations which subsequently exchanged migrants at a constant rate until the present. Of course, the assumption of constant gene flow until the present is often over-simplistic in the context of speciation. In this paper, we consider a 'generalised IM' (GIM) model: a two-population IM model in which migration rates and population sizes are allowed to change at some point in the past. By developing a maximum-likelihood implementation of this model, we enable inference on both historical and contemporary rates of gene flow between two closely related populations or species. The GIM model encompasses both the standard two-population IM model and the 'isolation with initial migration' (IIM) model as special cases, as well as a model of secondary contact. We examine for simulated data how our method can be used, by means of likelihood ratio tests or AIC scores, to distinguish between the following scenarios of population divergence: (a) divergence in complete isolation; (b) divergence with a period of gene flow followed by isolation; (c) divergence with a period of isolation followed by secondary contact; (d) divergence with ongoing gene flow. Our method is based on the coalescent and is suitable for data sets consisting of the number of nucleotide differences between one pair of DNA sequences at each of a large number of independent loci. As our method relies on an explicit expression for the likelihood, it is computationally very fast.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Inference of gene flow in the process of speciation: Efficient maximum-likelihood implementation of a generalised isolation-with-migration model |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.tpb.2021.03.001 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2021.03.001 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Coalescent, Gene flow, Isolation, Maximum-likelihood, Secondary contact, Speciation |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Statistical Science |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10124863 |
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