Relatedness is a fundamental concept in genetics but is surprisingly hard to define in a
rigorous yet useful way. Traditional relatedness coefficients specify expected genome …

Metrics derived from pedigrees are key to investigating several major issues in evolutionary
biology, including the quantitative genetic architecture of traits, inbreeding depression, and …

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

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

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

Knowledge of the genetic relatedness among individuals is essential in diverse research
areas such as behavioural ecology, conservation biology, quantitative genetics and …

Controversy exists regarding the nature of primate social relationships. While individual
primates are frequently hypothesized to form enduring social bonds with conspecifics, recent …

The complex cooperative behavior exhibited by wild chimpanzees generates considerable
theoretical and empirical interest, yet we know very little about the mechanisms responsible …

Group-living animals routinely have to reach a consensus decision and choose between
mutually exclusive actions in order to coordinate their activities and benefit from sociality [1 …

Inbreeding (F) of and relatedness (r) between individuals are now routinely calculated from
marker data in studies in the fields of quantitative genetics, conservation genetics, forensics …