“…(2017) study of Le Conte's thrashers ( Toxostoma lecontei ) in estimating negligible migration among subspecies to recommend conservation status across their Western North American range. Other tools to test complex demographic models using genomic data include coalescent simulation‐based methods (e.g., FASTSIMCOAL; Excoffier & Foll, 2011; Excoffier, Dupanloup, Huerta‐Sánchez, Sousa, & Foll, 2013), Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC; Beaumont, Zhang, & Balding, 2002; Robinson, Bunnefeld, Hearn, Stone, & Hickerson, 2014)‐based methods that compare summary statistic distributions in simulated versus observed populations, and diffusion approximations to the joint allele frequency spectrum for demographic inference (e.g., ∂ a ∂ i , Gutenkunst, Hernandez, Williamson, & Bustamante, 2009). In general, model‐based estimation of evolutionary demographic history (both ancient and recent) when applied in combination with summary population genetic statistics as described above (including F
ST , inbreeding coefficients, and homozygosity), and non‐model‐based methods (including STRUCTURE and ADMIXTURE; Alexander, Novembre, & Lange, 2009; Pritchard et al., 2000) can prove to be useful means to bridge genomics and conservation in particular.…”