Multispecies coalescent delimits structure, not species

By Jeet Sukumaran, L. Lacey Knowles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017

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Genetic Diversity and Conservation Units: Dealing With the Species-Population Continuum in the Age of Genomics (2018, background): “What genomics brings to this endeavor is both increased resolution of population structure and data that are sufficient to statistically infer population histories and test alternative models of divergence (Degnan and Rosenberg, 2009; Sukumaran and Knowles, 2017).”
Large‐scale DNA‐based survey of frogs in Amazonia suggests a vast underestimation of species richness and endemism (2020, background): “…or underestimate it in others (false negatives) (Goldstein & DeSalle, 2011; Hickerson, Stahl, & Lessios, 2006; Krishnamurthy & Francis, 2012; Sukumaran & Knowles, 2017; Yu, Rao, Matsui, & Yang, 2017), such an approach can turn out to be reliable overall when applied to large assemblages of…”
Species in lichen-forming fungi: balancing between conceptual and practical considerations, and between phenotype and phylogenomics (2021, background): “However, with genome-scale data practically every population will be diagnosable given enough resolution power (Zachos et al. 2013; Sukumaran and Knowles 2017; Widhelm et al. 2021), a problem that may also occur with fine-scaled behavioral, ecological and morphological traits.”