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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 9:147doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-147

Published: 30 June 2009

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Additional file 1:

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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Additional file 2:

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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