STORM: software for testing hypotheses of relatedness and mating patterns |
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Authors: | Frasier Timothy R |
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Institution: | Natural Resources DNA Profiling and Forensic Centre, DNA Building, Trent University, 2140 East Bank Drive, Peterborough, ON, Canada K9J 7B8. |
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Abstract: | Storm is a software package that allows users to test a variety of hypotheses regarding patterns of relatedness and patterns of mate choice and/or mate compatibility within a population. These functions are based on four main calculations that can be conducted either independently or in the hypothesis-testing framework: internal relatedness; homozygosity by loci; pairwise relatedness; and a new metric called allele inheritance, which calculates the proportion of loci at which an offspring inherits a paternal allele different from that inherited from its mother. STORM allows users to test four hypotheses based on these calculations and Monte Carlo simulations: (i) are individuals within observed associations or groupings more/less related than expected; (ii) do observed offspring have more/less genetic variability (based on internal relatedness or homozygosity by loci) than expected from the gene pool; (iii) are observed mating pairs more/less related than expected if mating is random with respect to relatedness; and (iv) do observed offspring inherit paternal alleles different from those inherited from the mother more/less often than expected based on Mendelian inheritance. |
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Keywords: | mate choice mate incompatibility mating patterns relatedness |
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