BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Evidence that pairing with genetically similar mates is maladaptive in a monogamous bird

Hervé Mulard1,2,3,6*, Etienne Danchin1,3, Sandra L Talbot4, Andrew M Ramey4, Scott A Hatch4, Joël F White1,2,3, Fabrice Helfenstein5 and Richard H Wagner2

Author Affiliations

1 Laboratoire Fonctionnement et Évolution des Système Écologiques, CNRS-UMR 7103, Ecology Institute, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, 7 Quai St Bernard, 75005 Paris, France

2 Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Savoyenstrasse 1a, A-1160 Vienna, Austria

3 Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, UMR 5174, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31962 Toulouse Cedex 9, France

4 U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center, 4210 University Drive, Anchorage, Alaska, 99508, USA

5 Evolutionary Ecology Group, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, 3012 Bern, Switzerland

6 Laboratoire d'Écologie et de Neuro-Éthologie Sensorielles, Université Jean Monnet, 23 Rue Paul Michelon, 42023 Saint-Étienne Cedex 03, France

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:147 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-147

Published: 30 June 2009

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Table 2with effect size of heterozygosity. Extended version of the Table 2, including mean effect size of heterozygosity for all analyses.

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Code of the program Nausicaa. This file contains the complete code of the program used for calculation of genetic indices and Monte-Carlo analyses.

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GNU-GPL Licence. GNU-GPL Licence for the program Nausicaa contained in additional file 2.

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