Strategies for determining kinship in wild populations using genetic data

The ties that bind: Maternal kin bias in a multilevel primate society despite natal dispersal by both sexes

(2016) Veronika Städele et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Efficient Genome-Wide Sequencing and Low-Coverage Pedigree Analysis from Noninvasively Collected Samples

(2016) N. Snyder-Mackler et al.   GENETICS

Pedigrees or markers: Which are better in estimating relatedness and inbreeding coefficient?

(2016) Jinliang Wang   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

Sex differences in kin bias at maturation: Male rhesus macaques prefer paternal kin prior to natal dispersal

(2015) Anja Widdig et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Reproductive competition and inbreeding avoidance in a primate species with habitual female dispersal

(2015) Linda Vigilant et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Measuring individual inbreeding in the age of genomics: marker-based measures are better than pedigrees

(2015) M Kardos et al.   HEREDITY

Fine-scale genetic assessment of sex-specific dispersal patterns in a multilevel primate society

(2015) Veronika Städele et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Banded mongooses avoid inbreeding when mating with members of the same natal group

(2015) Jennifer L. Sanderson et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Should the Mantel test be used in spatial analysis?

(2015) Pierre Legendre et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Single nucleotide polymorphism-based dispersal estimates using noninvasive sampling

(2015) Anita J. Norman et al.   Ecology and Evolution

How Well Do Molecular and Pedigree Relatedness Correspond, in Populations with Diverse Mating Systems, and Various Types and Quantities of Molecular and Demographic Data?

(2015) Anna M. Kopps et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

PRIMUS: Rapid Reconstruction of Pedigrees from Genome-wide Estimates of Identity by Descent

(2014) Jeffrey Staples et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

The effect of male parallel dispersal on the kin composition of groups in white-faced capuchins

(2014) Eva C. Wikberg et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Estimating quantitative genetic parameters in wild populations: a comparison of pedigree and genomic approaches

(2014) Camillo Bérénos et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A single-nucleotide polymorphism-based approach for rapid and cost-effective genetic wolf monitoring in Europe based on noninvasively collected samples

(2014) Robert H. S. Kraus et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

A comparison of single nucleotide polymorphism and microsatellite markers for analysis of parentage and kinship in a cooperatively breeding bird

(2014) Lucia R. Weinman et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Relatedness in the post-genomic era: is it still useful?

(2014) Doug Speed et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The Evolution of Extreme Polyandry in Social Insects: Insights from Army Ants

(2014) Matthias Benjamin Barth et al.   PLoS One

Sexually selected skin colour is heritable and related to fecundity in a non-human primate

(2014) C. Dubuc et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Correlates of genetic monogamy in socially monogamous mammals: insights from Azara's owl monkeys

(2014) M. Huck et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Use of microsatellite data and pedigree information in the genetic management of two long-term salmon conservation programs

(2014) Patrick T. O’Reilly et al.   REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES

Statistical Power to Detect Genetic (Co)Variance of Complex Traits Using SNP Data in Unrelated Samples

(2014) Peter M. Visscher et al.   PLoS Genetics

IPED2X: A robust pedigree reconstruction algorithm for complicated pedigrees

(2014) Dan He et al.   Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Fast half-sibling population reconstruction: theory and algorithms

(2013) Daniel Dexter et al.   Algorithms for Molecular Biology

Factors predicting the frequency, likelihood and duration of allonursing in the cooperatively breeding meerkat

(2013) K.J. MacLeod et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA by diverse mechanisms to eliminate paternal mitochondrial DNA

(2013) Miyuki Sato et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

Improved estimation of inbreeding and kinship in pigs using optimized SNP panels

(2013) Marcos S Lopes et al.   BMC GENETICS

Kin-bias, breeding site selection and female fitness in a cannibalistic Neotropical frog

(2013) P. Muralidhar et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Pedigree-Free Estimates of Heritability in the Wild: Promising Prospects for Selfing Populations

(2013) Laurene Gay et al.   PLoS One

Cross-Amplification and Validation of SNPs Conserved over 44 Million Years between Seals and Dogs

(2013) Joseph I. Hoffman et al.   PLoS One

Dismantling the Mantel tests

(2013) Gilles Guillot et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Generation length for mammals

(2013) Moreno Di Marco et al.   Nature Conservation-Bulgaria

Herd composition, kinship and fission-fusion social dynamics among wild giraffe

(2012) Fred B. Bercovitch et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Adoption and cuckoldry lead to alloparental care in the tessellated darter (Etheostoma olmstedi), a non-group-living species with no evidence of nest site limitation

(2012) Kelly A. Stiver et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Female philopatry and its social benefits among Bornean orangutans

(2012) Maria A. van Noordwijk et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Maximum Likelihood Pedigree Reconstruction Using Integer Linear Programming

(2012) James Cussens et al.   GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY

Computationally Efficient Sibship and Parentage Assignment from Multilocus Marker Data

(2012) J. Wang   GENETICS

Relative accuracy of three common methods of parentage analysis in natural populations

(2012) Hugo B. Harrison et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Neighbouring chimpanzee communities show different preferences in social grooming behaviour

(2012) E. J. C. van Leeuwen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Reconstruction of genealogical relationships with applications to Phase III of HapMap

(2011) S. Kyriazopoulou-Panagiotopoulou et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Social learning of vocal structure in a nonhuman primate?

(2011) Alban Lemasson et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

DNA microarray as a tool in establishing genetic relatedness—Current status and future prospects

(2011) Daniel Kling et al.   Forensic Science International-Genetics

Variation in actual relationship as a consequence of Mendelian sampling and linkage

(2011) W.G. HILL et al.   Genetics Research

Maximum-likelihood estimation of recent shared ancestry (ERSA)

(2011) C. D. Huff et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Pedigree Reconstruction Using Identity by Descent

(2011) Bonnie Kirkpatrick et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

A new version of PRT software for sibling groups reconstruction with comments regarding several issues in the sibling reconstruction problem

(2011) ANTHONY ALMUDEVAR et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Current trends in microsatellite genotyping

(2011) E. GUICHOUX et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

The use of cross-species genome-wide arrays to discover SNP markers for conservation genetics: a case study from Arabian and scimitar-horned oryx

(2011) Rob Ogden et al.   Conservation Genetics Resources

Female bisexual kinship ties maintain social cohesion in a dolphin network

(2010) Joanna Wiszniewski et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Robust relationship inference in genome-wide association studies

(2010) Ani Manichaikul et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Conservation of Human Microsatellites across 450 Million Years of Evolution

(2010) Emmanuel Buschiazzo et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Genetic evidence for male-biased dispersal in the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus) based on autosomal and Z-chromosomal markers

(2010) M.-H. LI et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

On the use of large marker panels to estimate inbreeding and relatedness: empirical and simulation studies of a pedigreed zebra finch population typed at 771 SNPs

(2010) ANNA W. SANTURE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genomic-scale capture and sequencing of endogenous DNA from feces

(2010) GEORGE H. PERRY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Detecting dyads of related individuals in large collections of DNA-profiles by controlling the false discovery rate

(2010) H. J. SKAUG et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

A genome-wide set of SNPs detects population substructure and long range linkage disequilibrium in wild sheep

(2010) J.M. MILLER et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Thar She Blows! A Novel Method for DNA Collection from Cetacean Blow

(2010) Céline H. Frère et al.   PLoS One

Does Kin Recognition and Sib-Mating Avoidance Limit the Risk of Genetic Incompatibility in a Parasitic Wasp?

(2010) Marie Metzger et al.   PLoS One

Individuals and populations: the role of long-term, individual-based studies of animals in ecology and evolutionary biology

(2010) Tim Clutton-Brock et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

FRANz: reconstruction of wild multi-generation pedigrees

(2009) M. Riester et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Decoding an olfactory mechanism of kin recognition and inbreeding avoidance in a primate

(2009) Marylène Boulet et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Genome variability in European and American bison detected using the BovineSNP50 BeadChip

(2009) Cino Pertoldi et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Parentage and Sibship Inference From Multilocus Genotype Data Under Polygamy

(2009) J. Wang et al.   GENETICS

The quest for Y-chromosomal markers - methodological strategies for mammalian non-model organisms

(2009) MAJA P. GREMINGER et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

A practical guide to methods of parentage analysis

(2009) ADAM G. JONES et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Resolving the evolution of extant and extinct ruminants with high-throughput phylogenomics

(2009) J. E. Decker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Kin selection in Columbian ground squirrels (Urocitellus columbianus): littermate kin provide individual fitness benefits

(2009) V. A. Viblanc et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Can't get there from here: inferring kinship from pairwise genetic relatedness

(2008) Russell C. Van Horn et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Quantitative PCR assessment of microsatellite and SNP genotyping with variable quality DNA extracts

(2008) Nathan R. Campbell et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Sex-determining mechanisms in insects

(2008) Lucas Sanchez   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

TECHNICAL ADVANCES: A maximum-likelihood relatedness estimator allowing for negative relatedness values

(2007) DMITRY A. KONOVALOV et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources