Publications by authors named "Lauren E Frankel"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how hybridization and genetic introgression are affected by variations in evolutionary rates across different species and genes, which can lead to inaccuracies in commonly used detection methods.
- It evaluates the performance of three popular tests (D test, D3 test, and HyDe), revealing that they often produce false positives when species lineages have differing substitution rates.
- The findings suggest that relying on these tests without accounting for rate variation can mislead researchers about the prevalence of hybridization, emphasizing the need for alternative methods that do not assume consistent evolutionary rates.
