When every individual has an equal chance of mating with other individuals, the population is classified as panmictic. Amongst metazoan parasites of animals, local-scale panmixia can be disrupted due to not only non-random mating, but also non-random transmission among individual hosts of a single host population or non-random transmission among sympatric host species. Population genetics theor...

Parentage studies often estimate the number of parents contributing to half-sib progeny arrays by counting the number of alleles attributed to unshared parents. This approach is compromised when an offspring has the same heterozygous genotype as the shared parent, for then the contribution of the unshared parent cannot be unambiguously deduced. To determine how often such cases occur, formulae ...

Consider the genome structure of gametes in an advanced F t population descended from two inbred lines. these eight gametes can produce 36 diierent zygotes (27 discernible genotypes in practice). Assume that r, r 1 , and r 2 denote the recombination rates between A and C, betwe e n A a n d B a n d b e t ween B and C, respectively. Let 1 and 0 represent the capital and small-letter alleles, resp...

High predation risk and food depletion lead to sexual reproduction in cyclically parthenogenetic Daphnia. Mating, the core of sexual reproduction, also occurs under these conditions. Assessment of the environmental conditions and alteration of mating efforts may aid in determining the success of sexual reproduction. Here, we evaluated the impacts of predation risk, food quantity, and reproducti...

Changes in the Mean and Variance Under Inbreeding Inbreeding Inbreeding (mating of related individuals) often results in a change in the mean of a trait compared with its value in a random-mating population. Its importance is that inbreeding is generally harmful and reduces fitness. In particular, inbreeding often causes a reduction of the mean value for quantitative traits associated with repr...

CHANGES IN THE MEAN AND VARIANCE UNDER INBREEDING Inbreeding Inbreeding (mating of related individuals) often results in a change in the mean of a trait compared with its value in a random-mating population. Its importance is that inbreeding is generally harmful and reduces fitness. In particular, inbreeding often causes a reduction of the mean value for quantitative traits associated with repr...

Genetic algorithms typically use crossover, which relies on mating a set of selected parents. As part of crossover, random mating is often carried out. A novel approach to parent mating is presented in this work. Our novel approach can be applied in combination with a traditional similarity-based criterion to measure distance between individuals or with a fitness-based criterion. We introduce a...