Refining analyses of existing data sets is valuable for macrogenetics: a response to Paz-Vinas, Jensen et al., (2021)

Katie L Millette; Vincent Fugère; Chloé Debyser; Ariel Greiner; Frédéric J J Chain; Andrew Gonzalez

doi:10.1111/ele.13733

Refining analyses of existing data sets is valuable for macrogenetics: a response to Paz-Vinas, Jensen et al., (2021)

Ecol Lett. 2021 Jun;24(6):1285-1286. doi: 10.1111/ele.13733. Epub 2021 Mar 22.

Authors

Katie L Millette¹, Vincent Fugère², Chloé Debyser¹, Ariel Greiner³, Frédéric J J Chain⁴, Andrew Gonzalez^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
² Département des Sciences de l'Environnement, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivieres, QC, Canada.
³ Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA.
⁵ Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, Montreal, QC, Canada.

PMID: 33749965
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13733

Abstract

Paz-Vinas, Jensen et al. (2021) comment on data and methodological limits of Millette, Fugère, Debyser et al. (2020)-some affect a small proportion of our data sets and analyses and others need to be tackled more generally. These points do not refute our main conclusion of no strong signal of human impacts on COI variation globally.

Keywords: COI; intraspecific genetic diversity; intraspecific genetic variation; macrogenetics; population genetics.