POLDISP: a software package for indirect estimation of contemporary pollen dispersal

  1. JUAN J. ROBLEDO-ARNUNCIO1,
  2. FRÉDÉRIC AUSTERLITZ2,
  3. PETER E. SMOUSE3

Article first published online: 13 FEB 2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01706.x

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Molecular Ecology Notes

Molecular Ecology Notes

Volume 7, Issue 5, pages 763–766, September 2007

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ROBLEDO-ARNUNCIO, J. J., AUSTERLITZ, F. and SMOUSE, P. E. (2007), POLDISP: a software package for indirect estimation of contemporary pollen dispersal. Molecular Ecology Notes, 7: 763–766. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-8286.2007.01706.x

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  1. 1

    Laboratoire Génétique et Environnement, Université de Montpellier II, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution, 34095 Montpellier cedex 05, France,

  2. 2

    Laboratoire de Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, UMR CNRS 8079, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay cedex, France,

  3. 3

    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551, USA

* Dr. Juan J. Robledo-Arnuncio, Fax: +33 467143622; E-mail: jjrobledo@gmail.com

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 13 FEB 2007
  2. Article first published online: 13 FEB 2007
  3. Received 18 September 2006; revision accepted 8 January 2007

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Keywords:

  • correlated paternity;
  • dispersal kernel;
  • effective density;
  • genetic markers;
  • kindist;
  • twogener

Abstract

poldisp 1.0 is a free software package to estimate the distribution of pollen dispersal distances from mother–offspring diploid genotypic data. It requires the spatial coordinates and genotypes of a sample of seed plants and their respective maternal progenies, providing estimates of the average, variance and kurtosis of the pollen dispersal curve. poldisp also estimates the effective reproductive density of pollen donors and the correlation of paternity within and among maternal sibships. poldisp is useful for characterizing the spatial scale of pollen dispersal, for assessing the variation in male fertility and for investigating biological factors affecting correlated paternity in plants.

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