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Hadfield, J., Richardson, D.S. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7226-9074 and Burke, T.
(2006)
Towards unbiased parentage assignment: Combining genetic, behavioural and spatial data in a Bayesian framework.
Molecular Ecology, 15 (12).
pp. 3715-3730.
ISSN 1365-294X
Abstract
Inferring the parentage of a sample of individuals is often a prerequisite for many types of analysis in molecular ecology, evolutionary biology and quantitative genetics. In all but a few cases, the method of parentage assignment is divorced from the methods used to estimate the parameters of primary interest, such as mate choice or heritability. Here we present a Bayesian approach that simultaneously estimates the parentage of a sample of individuals and a wide range of population-level parameters in which we are interested. We show that joint estimation of parentage and population-level parameters increases the power of parentage assignment, reduces bias in parameter estimation, and accurately evaluates uncertainty in both. We illustrate the method by analysing a number of simulated test data sets, and through a re-analysis of parentage in the Seychelles warbler, Acrocephalus sechellensis. A combination of behavioural, spatial and genetic data are used in the analyses and, importantly, the method does not require strong prior information about the relationship between nongenetic data and parentage.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Organisms and the Environment |
| Depositing User: | EPrints Services |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2010 13:38 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jun 2026 15:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1303 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03050.x |
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