Publications by authors named "C A Buerkle"

Article Synopsis
  • Hybrid zones, where different species interbreed, provide key insights into how species form and evolve.
  • The new R package, bgchm, enhances population genomic analysis of these hybrid zones by improving Bayesian methods for estimating ancestry and genetic patterns.
  • bgchm offers accurate parameter estimation and can discern the roles of selection and genetic drift in introgression, while also addressing the limitations and future potential of genomic cline analysis.
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Hybrid zones have been viewed as an opportunity to see speciation in action. When hybrid zones are replicated, it is assumed that if the same genetic incompatibilities are maintaining reproductive isolation across all instances of secondary contact, those incompatibilities should be identifiable by consistent patterns in the genome. In contrast, changes in allele frequencies due to genetic drift should be idiosyncratic for each hybrid zone.

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The concept of a core microbiome has been broadly used to refer to the consistent presence of a set of taxa across multiple samples within a given habitat. The assignment of taxa to core microbiomes can be performed by several methods based on the abundance and occupancy (i.e.

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