Genetic flow directionality and geographical segregation in a Cymodocea nodosa genetic diversity network
Populations and Evolution
2013-02-13 v3 Biological Physics
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Abstract
We analyse a large data set of genetic markers obtained from populations of Cymodocea nodosa, a marine plant occurring from the East Mediterranean to the Iberian-African coasts in the Atlantic Ocean. We fully develop and test a recently introduced methodology to infer the directionality of gene flow based on the concept of geographical segregation. Using the Jensen-Shannon divergence, we are able to extract a directed network of gene flow describing the evolutionary patterns of Cymodocea nodosa. In particular we recover the genetic segregation that the marine plant underwent during its evolution. The results are confirmed by natural evidence and are consistent with an independent cross analysis.
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@article{arxiv.1206.5453,
title = {Genetic flow directionality and geographical segregation in a Cymodocea nodosa genetic diversity network},
author = {Paolo Masucci and Sophie Arnaud-Haond and Víctor M. Eguíluz and Emilio Hernández-García and Ester A. Serrão},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.5453},
year = {2013}
}