Assignment methods: matching biological questions with appropriate techniques.

By S. Manel, Oscar E. Gaggiotti, Robin S. Waples. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2005

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Dispersal patterns in sympatric woolly and spider monkeys: integrating molecular and observational data (2009, methodology): “Finally, we used the genotype data to investigate sex-biased dispersal using assignment methods (Paetkau et al., 1995; Rannala & Mountain, 1997; Cornuet et al., 1999; Banks & Eichert, 2000; Pritchard et al., 2000; Piry et al., 2004; Manel et al., 2005 ).”
Long-distance gene flow and adaptation of forest trees to rapid climate change (2012, background): “Genetic assignment (glossary) methods linking pollen, seeds or seedlings to candidate parental populations could be used to evaluate the eﬀective rate and range of contemporary gene ﬂow among discrete populations (Manel et al. 2005).”
Gene Flow in Complex Landscapes: Testing Multiple Hypotheses with Causal Modeling (2006, methodology): “…structure has been assessed using FST, GST, or assignment tests to measure structure between populations on either side of a putative barrier (e.g., Krings et al. 1999; Castella et al. 2000; Burton et al. 2002; Manel et al. 2005; Riley et al. 2006; but see Dupanloup et al. 2002; Manel et al. 2003).”
Reproductive resilience: a paradigm shift in understanding spawner-recruit systems in exploited marine fish (2017, positive): “These genetic techniques provide a direct means to quantify individual reproductive success, identify sources of recruits, and ground-truth larval dispersal trajectories and dynamics (Manel et al. 2005; Harrison et al. 2012; Iacchei et al. 2013; Crossin et al. 2014).”
DNA barcoding for ecologists. (2009, background): “differences in marker frequencies among populations, refers to assignment tests [ 83 ], and should not be considered as DNA”
dartr: An r package to facilitate analysis of SNP data generated from reduced representation genome sequencing (2018, background): “Assigning individuals of unknown provenance to populations of known provenance is a challenging exercise, and several approaches have been suggested (Blanchong, Scribner, & Winterstein, 2002; G € otz & Thaller, 1998; Manel, Gaggiotti, & Waples, 2005; Paetkau, Slade, Burden, & Estoup, 2004).”
Genetic analysis of landscape connectivity in tree populations (2006, neutral): “In theory, assignment techniques seem ideally suited for this purpose (e.g., Rannala and Mountain 1997; Cornuet et al. 1999; Pritchard et al. 2000; Paetkau et al. 2004; Manel et al 2005).”
Ecological investigations of grizzly bears in Canada using DNA from hair, 1995–2005: a review of methods and progress (2010, methodology): “Individual-based genetic analysis techniques (Paetkau et al. 1995, Waser and Strobeck 1998, Pritchard et al. 2000, Pearse and Crandell 2004, Manel et al. 2005) can allow exploring individual movement rates in systems that have been recently fragmented and genetic drift has had time to occur.”
Bayesian clustering algorithms ascertaining spatial population structure: a new computer program and a comparison study (2007, methodology): “Manel et al. (2005) claimed that for species in which individuals are continuously distributed, methods other than assignments methods are more appropriate to address questions such as the location of genetic discontinuities or the detection of geographical barriers.”
Contribution of genetics and genomics to seagrass biology and conservation (2007, background): “Assignment tests belong to a novel set of techniques to assess gene flow (Rannala and Mountain, 1997; Wilson and Rannala, 2003; Manel et al., 2005).”
Ocean's eleven: a critical evaluation of the role of population, evolutionary and molecular genetics in the management of wild fisheries (2015, background): “Unlike conventional genetic analysis, these methods can directly estimate the number of migrants between stocks on an ecological timescale and so are highly compatible with conventional ecological methods so long as stocks are sufficiently genetically differentiated (Cornuet et al. 1999; Berry et al”
Measuring long‐distance seed dispersal in complex natural environments: an evaluation and integration of classical and genetic methods (2008, background): “…genetic sampling of populations distributed across a landscape of interest and the use of assignment techniques based upon more traditional measures of population genetic structure could be used to determine the most-likely source population of immigrant seeds (see review in Manel et al. 2005).”
Applications of landscape genetics in conservation biology: concepts and challenges (2010, background): “However, during the past few years, landscape genetics has developed into a field progressively adopting individual-based statistical analysis (Manel et al. 2005).”
Integrating genetic data into management of marine resources: how can we do it better? (2008, background): “Some of the new analytical techniques, broadly known as assignment methods (Pearse and Crandall 2004; Manel et al. 2005), have the potential to study contemporary dispersal over ecological time frames, rather than relying on assumptions about long-term migration–drift equilibrium, as do most…”