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How to fail at species delimitation

Molecular ecology, 2013-09, Vol.22 (17), p.4369-4383 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd ;2014 INIST-CNRS ;2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ;ISSN: 0962-1083 ;EISSN: 1365-294X ;DOI: 10.1111/mec.12413 ;PMID: 23855767

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Title:
How to fail at species delimitation
Author: Carstens, Bryan C. ; Pelletier, Tara A. ; Reid, Noah M. ; Satler, Jordan D.
Subjects: Biodiversity ; Biological and medical sciences ; Biological evolution ; Classification - methods ; coalescent ; Conservation biology ; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology ; Genetic Speciation ; Genetics of eukaryotes. Biological and molecular evolution ; Genetics, Population ; Models, Genetic ; Phylogeny ; phylogeography ; Population genetics, reproduction patterns ; Research methodology ; species delimitation
Is Part Of: Molecular ecology, 2013-09, Vol.22 (17), p.4369-4383
Description: Species delimitation is the act of identifying species‐level biological diversity. In recent years, the field has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of methods available for delimiting species. However, most recent investigations only utilize a handful (i.e. 2–3) of the available methods, often for unstated reasons. Because the parameter space that is potentially relevant to species delimitation far exceeds the parameterization of any existing method, a given method necessarily makes a number of simplifying assumptions, any one of which could be violated in a particular system. We suggest that researchers should apply a wide range of species delimitation analyses to their data and place their trust in delimitations that are congruent across methods. Incongruence across the results from different methods is evidence of either a difference in the power to detect cryptic lineages across one or more of the approaches used to delimit species and could indicate that assumptions of one or more of the methods have been violated. In either case, the inferences drawn from species delimitation studies should be conservative, for in most contexts it is better to fail to delimit species than it is to falsely delimit entities that do not represent actual evolutionary lineages.
Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0962-1083
EISSN: 1365-294X
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12413
PMID: 23855767
Source: MEDLINE
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How to fail at species delimitation

2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd ;2014 INIST-CNRS ;2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ;ISSN: 0962-1083 ;EISSN: 1365-294X ;DOI: 10.1111/mec.12413 ;PMID: 23855767

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