The estimation of population differentiation with microsatellite markers

By François Balloux, Nicolas Lugon-Moulin. Molecular Ecology, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics

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Citations in the corpus

• Comparative organization of chloroplast, mitochondrial and nuclear diversity in plant populations. (2005, background): “No clear consensus exists regarding the usefulness of taking allele similarity into account when empirically measuring population genetic structure (e.g. Gaggiotti et al. 1999; Balloux & Lugon-Moulin 2002), so this question seems relevant.”
• Ocean's eleven: a critical evaluation of the role of population, evolutionary and molecular genetics in the management of wild fisheries (2015, background): “This issue has been partly resolved by the development of more informative and less expensive DNA markers (Balloux and Lugon-Moulin 2002), but the fundamental difficulty presented by the mismatch between genetic and demographic cohesion remains both a perceived and real barrier to greater uptake (Ov”
• Comparison of different nuclear DNA markers for estimating intraspecific genetic diversity in plants (2004, background): “…diversity, codominant markers STMS data are usually interpreted according to one (or both) of two extreme models: an infinite alleles model (IAM) or a step-wise mutation model (SMM) which assumes that the size of a new allele depends on the size of the mutated allele (Balloux & Lugon-Moulin 2002).”
• Assessing population structure: FST and related measures (2011, background): “Only recently have biologists started to become aware of the limitations of F-statistics for analysing data from highly variable loci (Charlesworth 1998; Hedrick 1999, 2005; Balloux et al. 2000; Balloux & Lugon-Moulin 2002; Long & Kittles 2003; Gregorius et al. 2007; Jost 2008; Gregorius 2010).”
• Divergent selection and heterogeneous genomic divergence (2009, background): “In contrast, the sea floor is expected to be more heterogeneous during allopatric divergence, where the absence of gene flow allows the stochasticity of divergence due to drift and variable mutation rates to be more fully expressed (Balloux & Lugon-Moulin 2002; Hedrick 2005).”
• Microsatellites for ecologists: a practical guide to using and evaluating microsatellite markers. (2006, methodology): “…metrics employing the SMM tend to be highly sensitive to violations of this mutational model (e.g. loci with non-stepwise mutation or constraints on allele size) and thus metrics using the IAM are usually more robust and reliable (Ruzzante 1998; Balloux & Lugon-Moulin 2002; Landry et al. 2002).”
• Genetic Effects of a Persistent Bottleneck on a Natural Population of Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata) (2004, methodology): “…studies have pointed out that interpretation of Fst values per semight be of little biological relevance due to certain complications (Hedrick 1999; Balloux and Lugon-Moulin 2002); thus, we only assess the statistical significance of the Fst value by permutation tests and compare it to other…”
• Habitat type promotes rapid and extremely localised genetic differentiation in dolphins (2007, background): “…pairwise comparisons between embayment and coastal communities resulted in highly significant fixation indices (P 0.001: FST ranged from 0.06 to 0.15) (Table 3), with FST values suggesting moderate genetic differentiation (Balloux and Lugon-Moulin 2002) between dolphins of the two environments.”
• HIGH LEVELS OF GENETIC DIVERSITY AND LOW LEVELS OF GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION IN NORTH SEA PSEUDO‐NITZSCHIA PUNGENS (BACILLARIOPHYCEAE) POPULATIONS 1 (2005, methodology): “To avoid the misinterpretation of tests for population differentiation (Balloux and Lugon-Moulin 2002), population genetic structure was assessed visually by plotting frequency distributions of alleles (when sample size 450 isolates) as well as statistically by using both allelic tests of…”
• Origin, evolution and genome distribution of microsatellites (2006, background): “When working with microsatellites and low migration rates, the F-statistic is sensitive to the mutation rate but, unlike the situation under a strict stepwise mutation model, under these conditions RST is independent of the mutation rate and, due to its high associated variance, can be less accurate”
• DNA marker technologies and their applications in aquaculture genetics. (2004, background): “However, in a few fish species, we have observed alleles with very large differences in repeat numbers, predictive of an infinite allele model (Balloux and Lugon-Moulin, 2002).”
• Isolation by distance in the scleractinian coral Seriatopora hystrix from the Red Sea (2005, background): “We acknowledge, however, that a large sampling variance is often associated with RST when the number of loci is small (Balloux and Lugon-Moulin 2002).”
• Advances in our understanding of mammalian sex‐biased dispersal (2007, methodology): “…to the island model that are rarely met in practice, so any estimation of Nem by this method should be interpreted with great care (see Whitlock & McCauley 1999 for a detailed argument of this, and Balloux & Lugon-Moulin 2002 for a discussion on the limitations of FST for estimating Nem).”
• Spread of invasive Phragmites australis in estuaries with differing degrees of development: genetic patterns, Allee effects and interpretation (2010, background): “The two represent opposing extremes, neither of which is likely to strictly match the mutation of microsatellite loci; rather, each is more appropriate in some conditions, so both are reported here as suggested by Balloux & Lugon-Moulin (2002).”
• GST and its relatives do not measure differentiation (2008, background): “Writing about microsatellites, Balloux & Lugon-Moulin (2002) concluded that interpreting GST and related measures ‘can be a dangerous task’ and ‘it can be difficult or misleading to give a biological meaning to these values’.”