MIGRATE

MIGRATE estimates effective population sizes, past migration rates among multiple populations under asymmetric migration models, and population divergences or admixture events. The program uses Bayesian inference to jointly estimate all parameters from several molecular data types, including sequence data with or without site-rate variation, SNP data, microsatellite data under stepwise-mutation approximations, and electrophoretic data under an infinite-alleles model.

The output can include summaries such as modes, averages, medians, credibility intervals, marginal posterior histograms for individual parameters, and marginal likelihoods that support comparison among competing MIGRATE runs and model choices. The tutorial pages below are written to stand on their own in HTML, and compliant PDF versions can be added later without changing the public structure of the site.