Description of the phylogeographic models with an emphasis on data source and quality.

Supplementary Table 2 is also available in Excel format here.

Phylodynamics category Model description Software Genetic sequences Sequence length (pb) Data source Parameters inferred Reference
Parsimony discrete phylogeography Maximum parsimony PAUP* N (n = 130) 1335 Not informed Nucleotide substitution rate, Migration rates, tMRCA Bourhy et al., 2008
Bayesian discrete phylogeography Symmetric DTA + BSSVS BEAST 1 N (n = 101) 1335 Bourhy et al., 2008 Migration rates Lemey et al., 2009
Parsimony discrete phylogeography Maximum parsimony PAUP* N (n = 231)
G (n = 34)
1335
1572
Passive Nucleotide substitution rate, Migration rates, tMRCA Talbi et al., 2009
Parsimony discrete phylogeography DELTRAN and ACCTRAN optimization
Monte Carlo simulations
MigraPhyla N (n = 200) 1353 Passive
GenBank
Nucleotide substitution rate, Migration rates, tMRCA Meng et al., 2011
Bayesian discrete phylogeography DTA + BSSVSa BEAST 1 N (n = 303) 405 Passive
GenBank
Migration rates, Root state, tMRCA Hayman et al., 2011
Bayesian discrete phylogeography Symmetric DTA + BSSVS BEAST 1 N (n = 71) 1332 GenBank Nucleotide substitution rate, Migration rates, tMRCA Carnieli et al., 2011
Parsimony discrete phylogeography DELTRAN optimization
Monte Carlo simulations
PAUP*
MigraPhyla
N (n = 210) 720 Active
Passive
Nucleotide substitution rate, Migration rates, tMRCA Yu et al., 2012
Bayesian discrete phylogeography Asymmetric DTA + BSSVS BEAST 1 intergenic G-L (n = 635) 590 GenBank Migration rates, Root state, tMRCA Mollentze et al., 2013
Bayesian discrete phylogeography Symmetric DTA + BSSVS BEAST 1 N (n = 232) 1353 Active
Passive
Nucleotide substitution rate, Migration rates, tMRCA Guo et al., 2013
Bayesian continuous phylogeography Relaxed random walk (lognormal prior) BEAST 1 N (n = 53) 1388 Passive
GenBank
Nucleotide substitution rate, Lineage velocity, tMRCA Carnieli et al., 2013
Bayesian discrete phylogeography Symmetric DTA + BSSVS BEAST 1 G (n = 263) 1572 Passive Nucleotide substitution rate, Markov jumps, Migration rates, tMRCA Tohma et al., 2014
Bayesian discrete phylogeography Symmetric DTA + BSSVS BEAST 1 N (n = 139) 400 Passive
Systematic
Markov jumps, Migration rates, Root state, tMRCA Horton et al., 2015
Bayesian discrete phylogeography Asymmetric DTA + BSSVS BEAST 1 partial N gene (n = 430)
N (n = 100)
whole genome (n = 58)
405
1350
-
Active
Passive
Nucleotide substitution rate, Markov jumps, Migration rates, Population dynamics Brunker et al., 2015
Bayesian discrete phylogeography Symmetric DTA + BSSVS BEAST 1 N (n = 62) 534 Passive Migration rates, Root state Dibia et al., 2015
Bayesian discrete phylogeography Symmetric DTA + BSSVS BEAST 1 N (n = 203) 1353 GenBank Migration rates Yao et al., 2015
Bayesian phylodynamics Coalescent models BEAST 1 Whole genome (n = 248) GenBank
WHO Collaborative Center for Reference and Research on Rabies
French National Reference Centre for Rabies
Nucleotide substitution rate, tMRCA Troupin et al., 2016
Bayesian discrete phylogeography Asymmetric DTA + BSSVS BEAST 1 N (n = 401) 1350 Active
Passive
Nucleotide substitution rate, Markov jumps, Migration rates Zhang et al., 2017
Bayesian discrete phylogeography Asymmetric DTA + BSSVS BEAST 1 N (n = 20)
G (n = 16)
1353
1575
Passive Nucleotide substitution rate, Migration rates, tMRCA Ma et al., 2017
Bayesian continuous phylogeography Relaxed random walk (lognormal prior) BEAST 1 N, P, intergenic G-L (n = 250) 3080 Talbi et al., 2009 Velocity, distance and duration of movement
Velocity-associated landscape features
Dellicour et al., 2017
Bayesian discrete phylogeography
Bayesian continuous phylogeography
Asymmetric GLM + BSSVS
Relaxed random walk (gamma prior)
BEAST 1 Whole genome (n = 152) Brunker et al., 2015
Not indicated
Nucleotide substitution rate, Markov jumps, Migration rates
Velocity, distance and duration of movement
Velocity-associated landscape features
Brunker et al., 2018
Bayesian discrete phylogeography Symmetric DTA + BSSVS BEAST 1 N (n = 112) 1353 GenBank Nucleotide substitution rate, Migration rates, Population dynamics, tMRCA Wang et al., 2019
Bayesian discrete phylogeography
Bayesian continuous phylogeography
Symmetric DTA + BSSVS
Relaxed random walk (not indicated)
BEAST 1 Whole genome (n = 101) Passive Nucleotide substitution rate
Direction of spread
Velocity, distance and duration of movement
Velocity- and direction-associated landscape features
Dellicour et al., 2019
Note:
Abbreviations: ACCTRAN, Accelerated Transformation; BSSVS, Bayesian Stochastic Search Variable Selection; DELTRAN, Delayed Transformation; DTA, Discrete Trait Analysis; GLM, Generalized Linear Model; tMRCA, time to the Most Recent Common Ancestor; WHO World Health Organization
a Symmetry not indicated in the original publication