Revising how the computer program cervus accommodates genotyping error increases success in paternity assignment

By Steven T. Kalinowski, Mark L. Taper, T. Marshall. Molecular Ecology, 2007

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Genetic Diversity, Population Structure and Construction of a Core Collection of Apple Cultivars from Italian Germplasm (2014, methodology): “3.0 (Kalinowski et al. 2007) was used to detect the possible presence of null alleles, to determine the genetic uniqueness of each accession, and to quantify redundancy; the multi-locus DNA profile of all the accessions was compared pairwise under the identity analysis, setting the minimum number…”
Low level of extrapair parentage in wild zebra finches (2010, background): “0 (Kalinowski et al. 2007) for this set of markers in this population were P 1⁄4 0.”
More than friends? Behavioural and genetic aspects of heterosexual associations in wild chacma baboons (2010, methodology): “Likelihood-based paternity analysis was carried out using two different software packages: Cervus 3.0 (Kalinowski et al. 2007) and COLONY (Wang 2004).”
Determinants of male reproductive success in American black bears (2009, methodology): “We analyzed paternity (and maternity, when necessary) using Cervus 3.0 software (Marshall et al. 1998; Kalinowski et al. 2007).”
Learned vocal group signatures in the polygynous bat Saccopteryx bilineata (2012, methodology): “…the genotypes of all adult males present in the study colonies in the summers of 2005, 2006 and 2007 (N ¼ 10) we also considered genotypes of adult males sampled in the study colonies and adjacent colonies in former years (N ¼ 207) for paternity analysis with Cervus 3.0 (Kalinowski et al. 2007).”
No risk, no gain: effects of crop-raiding and genetic diversity on body size in male elephants (2011, methodology): “Using this criterion, we matched similar genotypes using the CERVUS software (Marshall et al. 1998; Kalinowski et al. 2007).”
Counting elusive animals: Comparing field and genetic census of the entire mountain gorilla population of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (2009, methodology): “We used Cervus 3.0 (Kalinowski et al., 2007) to find matching genotypes and to assess the probability of full siblings or unrelated individuals having an identical multi-locus genotype (pIDsib and pID).”
Mating success of alternative male phenotypes and evidence for frequency-dependent selection in Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (2010, methodology): “0 (Kalinowski et al. 2007) to determine the parentage of each fry.”
Genetic census reveals increased but uneven growth of a critically endangered mountain gorilla population (2013, methodology): “The program CERVUS 3.0.3 (Kalinowski et al., 2007) was used to compare results from extracts with a minimum of four fully genotyped loci in order to identify multiple samples from the same individual.”
Genetic Diversity, Population Structure, Parentage Analysis, and Construction of Core Collections in the French Apple Germplasm Based on SSR Markers (2016, methodology): “Basic statistics were computed with the CERVUS software package, version 3.0 (Kalinowski et al. 2007; Marshall et al. 1998) (http://www.fieldgenetics.com), on the unique diploid genotypes.”
Plant Parentage, Pollination, and Dispersal: How DNA Microsatellites Have Altered the Landscape (2010, methodology): “Programs like CERVUS calculate a logarithm of the likelihood ratio (LOD score) and assign parentage to the adult with the highest LOD score.”
Personality is associated with extrapair paternity in great tits, Parus major (2008, neutral): “We did this by testing all young for parentage against their putative fathers using the Windows-based program CERVUS version 3.0 (Marshall et al. 1998; Kalinowski et al. 2007).”
Association patterns of African elephants in all-male groups: the role of age and genetic relatedness (2011, methodology): “We tested all genotyped loci for HardyeWeinberg equilibrium and for the presence of null alleles (nonamplifying alleles) using CERVUS software before estimating relatedness (Marshall et al. 1998; Kalinowski et al. 2007).”