Inferring population history from molecular phylogenies.
Variable molecular sequences sampled from a population can be used to infer its dynamic history. Graphical methods are developed and applied to real data, illustrating ways of navigating through hypothesis space with two landmarks for reference: constant population size and exponentially growing population size.
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Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, U.K.
Holmes
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Rambaut
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Harvey
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D005828:Genetics, Population; D016679:Genome, Viral; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000235:genetics; D008967:Molecular Biology; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013997:Time Factors