Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies,
and human well‐being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under …

The use of molecular techniques for parentage analysis has been a booming science for
over a decade. The most important technological breakthrough was the introduction of …

The software package coancestry implements seven relatedness estimators and three
inbreeding estimators to estimate relatedness and inbreeding coefficients from multilocus …

Analyses of pairwise relatedness represent a key component to addressing many topics in
biology. However, such analyses have been limited because most available programs …

Cooperation beyond familial and group boundaries is core to the functioning of human
societies, yet its evolution remains unclear. To address this, we examined grooming …

Common vampire bats often regurgitate food to roost-mates that fail to feed. The original
explanation for this costly hel** behaviour invoked both direct and indirect fitness benefits …

Evolutionary explanations for mammalian sociality typically center on inclusive-fitness
benefits of associating and cooperating with close kin, or close maternal kin as in some …

Recent advances in population genomics have made it possible to detect previously
unidentified structure, obtain more accurate estimates of demographic parameters, and …

Because of their high variability, microsatellites are still considered the marker of choice for
studies on parentage and kinship in wild populations. Nevertheless, single nucleotide …

Background Genetic markers are widely used to understand the biology and population
dynamics of disease vectors, but often markers are limited in the resolution they provide. In …