ReviewProceedings. Biological sciences2008
Wild pedigrees: the way forward.
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93 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Runs of Homozygosity Predict Inbreeding Depression Across Taxa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Molecular ecology · 2026Pooled it
- Sex-specific inbreeding depression: A meta-analysis.Ecology letters · 2022Pooled it
- Wild Pedigree exploreR (wpeR): Streamlined Analysis and Visualization of Wild Pedigrees in Time and Space.Molecular ecology resources · 2026Article
- Pairwise Paternity Assignment With Forward-Backward Simulations: Refining CERVUS Using Trio-Based Likelihood and Locus-Specific Error Rates.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Joint Estimation of Paternity, Sibships and Pollen Dispersal in a Snapdragon Hybrid Zone.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- MalKinID: A classification model for identifying malaria parasite genealogical relationships using identity-by-descent.Genetics · 2025Article
- Genetic, natal and spatial drivers of social phenotypes in wild great tits.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Estimating realized relatedness in free-ranging macaques by inferring identity-by-descent segments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- When birds of a feather flock together: Severe genomic erosion and the implications for genetic rescue in an endangered island passerine.Evolutionary applications · 2024Article
- Little evidence of inbreeding depression for birth mass, survival and growth in Antarctic fur seal pups.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Polly: An R package for genotyping microsatellites and detecting highly polymorphic DNA markers from short-read data.Molecular ecology resources · 2024Article
- The estimation of additive genetic variance of body size in a wild passerine is sensitive to the method used to estimate relatedness among the individuals.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Taking identity-by-descent analysis into the wild: Estimating realized relatedness in free-ranging macaques.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Kinship composition in mammals.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- An empirical evaluation of the estimation of inbreeding depression from molecular markers under suboptimal conditions.Evolutionary applications · 2023Article
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- Taking quantitative genomics into the wild.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Lack of inbreeding avoidance during mate selection in migratory monarch butterflies.Behavioural processes · 2022Article
- Age-specific, population-level pedigree of wild black bears provides insights into reproduction, paternity, and maternal effects on offspring apparent survival.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Investigating population dynamics from parentage analysis in the highly endangered fan musselEcology and evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
Metrics derived from pedigrees are key to investigating several major issues in evolutionary biology, including the quantitative genetic architecture of traits, inbreeding depression, and the evolution of cooperation and inbreeding avoidance. There is merit in studying these issues in natural populations experiencing spatially and temporally variable environmental conditions, since these analyses may yield different results from laboratory studies and allow us to understand population responses to rapid environmental change. Partial pedigrees are now available for several natural populations which are the subject of long-term individual-based studies, and analyses using these pedigrees are leading to important insights. Accurate pedigree construction supported by molecular genetic data is now feasible across a wide range of taxa, and even where only imprecise pedigrees are available it is possible to estimate the consequences of imprecision for the questions of interest. In outbred diploid populations, the pedigree approach is superior to analyses based on marker-based pairwise estimators of coancestry.
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