How to fail at species delimitation

By Bryan C. Carstens, Tara A. Pelletier, N. Reid, Jordan D. Satler. Molecular Ecology, 2013

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The art and science of species delimitation (2015, neutral): “Carstens et al. (2013) observe that one can’t compare the performance of all possible methods nor can one evaluate the performance of any given method for all possible combinations of parameters and conclude that many (or all) available methods should be used since none can be excluded apriori.”
Species Delimitation using Genome-Wide SNP Data (2013, background): “Indeed, recent progress in statistical species delimitation has largely focused on genetic data Fujita et al. (2012); Carstens et al. (2013), likely due to the ease with which they can be abundantly collected even for non-model organisms.”
DNA-based species delimitation in algae (2014, methodology): “…in algae The idea that species are separately evolving metapopulation lineages, along with theoretical progress in phylogenetic and population genetic analyses, has led to the development of new methods of species delimitation (Sites & Marshall, 2003; Camargo & Sites, 2013; Carstens et al., 2013).”
The BPP program for species tree estimation and species delimitation (2015, methodology): “(2012) and Carstens et al. (2013) for reviews on species delimitation methods using genetic sequence data. A critical assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of those methods is provided by Rannala (2015). Liu et al. (2015) reviewed methods for species tree estimation in the presence of conflicti”
Multispecies coalescent delimits structure, not species (2017, background): “Misidentification of population structure as putative species is therefore emerging as a key issue (8) that has received insufficient attention, especially with respect to methodologies for delimiting taxa based on genetic data alone.”
ASAP: assemble species by automatic partitioning (2020, methodology): “In this category, the most popular methods are SpedeSTEM (Ence & Carstens, 2011), BPP (Yang & Rannala, 2014) and BFD (Leaché et al., 2014), reviewed (with other methods) in several articles (Camargo & Sites, 2013; Carstens et al., 2013; Fujita et al., 2012; Leavitt et al., 2015; Rannala, 2015).”