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New Methods in Evolutionary Research

Edited by Rob Freckleton and Bob O'Hara
July 2012

When we launched Methods in Ecology and Evolution we were keen to encompass a range of methodologies, and to give authors the chance to publish as wide a variety of methods as possible, as well as maximise the audience of ecologists and evolutionary biologists that had access to this work. In this Virtual Issue, we highlight the variety of papers and evolutionary methods that we have published in the first 2.5 years of MEE.

The breadth of subjects is remarkable – these range from the analysis of barcodes and DNA sequences, to citizen science approaches for collecting data. Population genetics and macroevolution have been well represented, while statistical methods papers have been popular with a healthy number of submissions, as well as downloads by our readers.

Of course, as a journal that aims to link evolution and ecology, this is only one part of the papers we publish and in some ways the division between ecology and evolution is slightly artificial as many methods are cross-cutting. However here we wish to take the opportunity to showcase the excellent papers that have a largely evolutionary content.

Barcoding

Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring
Douglas W. Yu, Yinqiu Ji, et al.

Barcoding’s next top model: an evaluation of nucleotide substitution models for specimen identification
Rupert A. Collins, Laura M. Boykin, et al.

Population Genetics

nadiv: an R package to create relatedness matrices for estimating non-additive genetic variances in animal models
Matthew E. Wolak

jPopGen Suite: population genetic analysis of DNA polymorphism from nucleotide sequences with errors
Xiaoming Liu

DNA Sequence Analysis

TempNet: a method to display statistical parsimony networks for heterochronous DNA sequence data
Stefan Prost and Christian N. K. Anderson

Accounting for uncertainty in species delineation during the analysis of environmental DNA sequence data
Jeff R. Powell

Directed terminal restriction analysis tool (DRAT): an aid to enzyme selection for directed terminalrestriction fragment length polymorphisms
David M. Roberts, Pietà G. Schofield, Suzanne Donn and Tim J. Daniell

Macroevolution

Testing the time-for-speciation effect in the assembly of regional biotas
Daniel L. Rabosky