iRel: software for implementing pairwise relatedness estimators and evaluating their performance

• Published in: Conservation genetics resources Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 69 - 71
• Main Authors: Gonçalves da Silva, Anders, Russello, Michael A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.01.2011; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Alleles; animal behavior; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Biodiversity; Biomedical and Life Sciences; computer software; Conservation Biology/Ecology; data collection; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology; Frequency distribution; Gene frequency; Life Sciences; Plant Genetics and Genomics; Technical Note; variance; Assigning relatedness categories; Computer program; Monte Carlo; Simulation; Conservation management

The online program iR el calculates the individual multilocus pairwise relatedness indices of Queller and Goodnight (Evolution 43: 258–275 1989 and Lynch and Ritland (Genetics 152:1753–1766, 1999 ), and evaluates their statistical properties given an empirical allele frequency distribution. In parti...