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Wild pedigrees: the way forward.

Proceedings. Biological sciences ·Vol. 275 ·No. 1635 ·2008-03-22 ·Pages 613-21

Pemberton JM

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.

MeSH Terms
Animals Animals, Wild Biological Evolution Female Genetic Markers Genetics, Population/methods Inbreeding Male Pedigree
Chemicals
Genetic Markers
Authors & Affiliations
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Pemberton J M
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK. [email protected]
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Article Info
Journal
Proceedings. Biological sciences
Abbr.
Proc Biol Sci
ISSN
0962-8452
DOI
10.1098/rspb.2007.1531
Email
[email protected]
Published
2008-03-22
Pages
613-21
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
101245157
PMCID
PMC2386891
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1531 PMC Full Text View journal details
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