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Disentangling the relative merits and disadvantages of parentage analysis and assignment tests for inferring population connectivity
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dc.contributor.author | Christie, Mark | |
dc.contributor.author | Meirmans, Patrick | |
dc.contributor.author | Gaggiotti, Oscar Eduardo | |
dc.contributor.author | Toonen, Robert | |
dc.contributor.author | White, Crow | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-07T23:34:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-07T23:34:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-07-01 | |
dc.identifier | 249396622 | |
dc.identifier | 5186e1b9-bab2-44b1-a333-19aa6f0c4a16 | |
dc.identifier | 85019850074 | |
dc.identifier | 000406598500025 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Christie , M , Meirmans , P , Gaggiotti , O E , Toonen , R & White , C 2017 , ' Disentangling the relative merits and disadvantages of parentage analysis and assignment tests for inferring population connectivity ' , ICES Journal of Marine Science , vol. 74 , no. 6 , pp. 1749-1762 . https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsx044 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1054-3139 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-1827-1493/work/61370102 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/13092 | |
dc.description | OEG was supported by MASTS (the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland). | en |
dc.description.abstract | Accurately estimating patterns of population connectivity in marine systems remains an elusive goal. Current genetic approaches have focused on assigning individuals back to their natal populations using one of two methods: parentage analyses and assignment tests. Each of these approaches has their relative merits and weaknesses. Here, we illustrate these tradeoffs using a forward-time agent-based model that incorporates relevant natural history and physical oceanography for 135 Kellet’s whelk (Kelletia kelletii) populations from Southern California. Like most marine organisms, Kellet’s whelks live in large metapopulations where local populations are connected by dispersive larvae. For estimating population connectivity, we found parentage analyses to be relatively insensitive to the amount of genetic differentiation among local populations, but highly sensitive to the proportion of the metapopulation sampled. Assignment tests, on the other hand, were relatively insensitive to the proportion of the metapopulation sampled, but highly sensitive to the amount of genetic differentiation found among local populations. Comparisons between the true connectivity matrices (generated by using the true origin of all sampled individuals) and those obtained via parentage analyses and assignment tests reveal that neither approach can explain more than 26% of the variation in true connectivity. Furthermore, even with perfect assignment of all sampled individuals, sampling error alone can introduce noise into the estimated population connectivity matrix. Future work should aim to improve the number of correct assignments without the expense of additional incorrect assignments, perhaps by using dispersal information gleaned from related individuals as priors in a Bayesian framework. These analyses dispel a number of common misconceptions in the field and highlight areas for both future research and methodological improvements. | |
dc.format.extent | 420655 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | ICES Journal of Marine Science | en |
dc.subject | Dispersal | en |
dc.subject | Genetic assignment tests | en |
dc.subject | Larval connectivity | en |
dc.subject | Marine metapopulations | en |
dc.subject | Parentage analysis | en |
dc.subject | QH301 Biology | en |
dc.subject | QH426 Genetics | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 14 - Life Below Water | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QH301 | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QH426 | en |
dc.title | Disentangling the relative merits and disadvantages of parentage analysis and assignment tests for inferring population connectivity | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Biology | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotland | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Institute | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsx044 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2018-04-07 |
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