Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
demographic events, population level phylogenies
College
Life Sciences
Department
Biology
Abstract
While I initially proposed to perform a rather thorough comparison of methods designed to infer population level demographic events, during the course of my research, I took a different direction. In order to reliably infer such events, it is first essential to have an accurate phylogeny. Since there was no consensus in the literature about what method or algorithm provides the most accurate reconstruction of the evolutionary relationships of nucleotide data from a population sample, I devoted most of my efforts to a large-scale comparison of the methods commonly used to infer phylogenies from such samples.
Recommended Citation
Woolley, Steven and Crandall, Dr. Keith
(2013)
"Inferring Demographic Events from Population Level Phylogenies,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:
Iss.
1, Article 1008.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/1008