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Posterior probabilities of membership of repertoires in acoustic clades

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Hersh,  Taylor A.
Comparative Bioacoustics, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Whitehead, H., & Hersh, T. A. (2022). Posterior probabilities of membership of repertoires in acoustic clades. PLoS One, 17(4): e0267501. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0267501.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-8575-C
Abstract
Recordings of calls may be used to assess population structure for acoustic species. This can be particularly effective if there are identity calls, produced nearly exclusively by just one population segment. The identity call method, IDcall, classifies calls into types using contaminated mixture models, and then clusters repertoires of calls into identity clades (potential population segments) using identity calls that are characteristic of the repertoires in each identity clade. We show how to calculate the Bayesian posterior probabilities that each repertoire is a member of each identity clade, and display this information as a stacked bar graph. This methodology (IDcallPP) is introduced using the output of IDcall but could easily be adapted to estimate posterior probabilities of clade membership when acoustic clades are delineated using other methods. This output is similar to that of the STRUCTURE software which uses molecular genetic data to assess population structure and has become a standard in conservation genetics. The technique introduced here should be a valuable asset to those who use acoustic data to address evolution, ecology, or conservation, and creates a methodological and conceptual bridge between geneticists and acousticians who aim to assess population structure.