The Isolation by distance mantel test is removed, where can I find a program to run a IBD test for mtDNA?

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Tyler Chafin

You can do a Mantel test (and partial mantel test, dbRDA, etc) pretty easily in the R package "vegan".

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vegan/vegan.pdf

Prashant Mallick

Arlequin can be used for IBD through Mantel test as suggested by Artur Burzynski too.

Madeline Elizabeth Green

Thanks everyone for the help and suggestions.

Cheers,

Madi