Bauder Et Al. - Landscape features fail to explain spatial genetic structure

RMarkdown script and data in an Excel sheet to evaluate spatial genetic structure in white-tailed deer across Ohio and compare the support for isolation by distance (IBD) and isolation by landscape resistance (IBR) models in explaining this structure. We used genetic data from 619 individual deer from 24 counties across Ohio tested at 11 microsatellites and haplotypes from a 547-bp fragment of the mitochondrial DNA control region. We used spatial and non-spatial genetic clustering tests to evaluate genetic structure in both types of genetic data and empirically optimized landscape resistance surfaces to compare IBD and IBR using microsatellite data.