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species-delimitation

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Delimits putative species boundaries from molecular data within the de Queiroz 2007 unified-lineage framework using ASAP (Puillandre 2021 successor to ABGD), mPTP C++ (Kapli 2017 successor to bPTP; bPTP is Python NOT R), GMYC single/multi-threshold (Pons 2006; Fujisawa 2013), multilocus BPP v4 with prior calibration from data (NOT defaults; Yang 2015), SNAPP + BFD* for SNP delimitation, DELINEATE (Sukumaran 2021) speciation-process modeling to address Sukumaran & Knowles 2017 PNAS critique that MSC delimits structure not species, integrative-taxonomy congruence (Padial 2010; Carstens 2013), Dsuite for introgression testing before sister claims (Malinsky 2021), and Meyer & Paulay 2005 barcoding-gap-absence caveat. Use when delineating species from DNA barcoding data, resolving cryptic complexes, choosing among ASAP/mPTP/BPP/DELINEATE, calibrating BPP priors, distinguishing introgression from ILS, or applying the Sukumaran-Knowles oversplitting correction.

When to use

• delineating species from DNA barcoding data
• resolving cryptic complexes
• choosing among ASAP/mPTP/BPP/DELINEATE
• calibrating BPP priors
• distinguishing introgression from ILS
• applying the Sukumaran-Knowles oversplitting correction
• multilocus coalescent genomic confirmation
• integrative-taxonomy validation

When not to use

• tasks where the barcoding gap is absent without inspection
• claiming sister relationships without Dsuite introgression testing

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