PARENTE is a user-friendly software package that conducts parentage inference using molecular data from diploid codominant markers. Based on the principle of genetic compatibility, PARENTE looks for maternity, paternity, or simultaneously for both potential parents, using multilocus genotypes and birth and death dates of individuals (if available). It also calculates the probability of successf...

re we ever going to do anything about assisted repro-duction? Fertilizing eggs in a dish to have children chafes because such a momentous event lacks a clear regulatory framework. Occasional scandals and now the prospect of embryonic screening bring on the shivers. The temptation is to do something now before greater problems develop. Fukuyama and Furger would create a whole new federal agency ...

This study is the first to characterise type of people trying resolve unknown parentage cases in UK and Ireland, how successful their efforts are, using commercial DTC (direct-to-consumer) DNA tests. A survey was conducted individuals born or with a biological parent from who had used genetic genealogy as part search for one both parents. Success rates were high assisting identification birth 4...

Individuals within groups of cooperatively breeding species may partition reproduction, with the dominant pair often taking the largest share. The dominant's ability to reproductively control subordinates may depend on differences in competitive ability, due to, e.g. body size differences, but may also depend on the number of same-sex competitors inside the group. We tested experimentally wheth...