Author Identifier (ORCID)

David Luke Field: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4014-8478

Abstract

Inferring genealogical relationships of wild populations is useful because it gives direct estimates of mating patterns and variance in reproductive success. Inference can be improved by including information about parentage shared between siblings, or by modelling phenotypes or population data related to mating. However, we currently lack a framework to infer parent–offspring relationships, sibships and population parameters in a single analysis. To address this, we here extend a previous method, Fractional Analysis of Paternity and Sibships, to include population data for the case where one parent is known. We illustrate this with the example of pollen dispersal in a natural hybrid zone population of the snapdragon Antirrhinum majus. Pollen dispersal is leptokurtic, with half of mating events occurring within 30 m, but with a long tail of mating events up to 859 m. Using simulations, we find that both sibship and population information substantially improve pedigree reconstruction, and that we can expect to resolve median dispersal distances with high accuracy.

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

1-1-2025

Publication Title

Molecular Ecology

Publisher

Wiley

School

School of Science

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

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Ellis, T. J., Field, D. L., & Barton, N. H. (2025). Joint estimation of paternity, sibships and pollen dispersal in a snapdragon hybrid zone. Molecular Ecology, 34(18). https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.70051

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Link to publisher version (DOI)

10.1111/mec.70051