… We would like to thank members of the Frasier Laboratory for testing this package at various
stages. The work of PM and JP on this project was supported by the Natural Sciences and …

Recent speciation events provide important insights into the understanding and conservation
of Earth's biodiversity, representing recent adaptations to a changing environment and an …

Fertilization represents a critical stage in biology, where successful alleles of a previous
generation are shuffled into new arrangements and subjected to the forces of selection in the …

Parentage analyses of baleen whales are rare, and although mating systems have been
hypothesized for some species, little data on realized male reproductive success are available …

… These individuals, as well as all historic samples, are currently being genotyped at 35 loci
as part of the ongoing genetic analysis of this species (TR Frasier and BN White, unpublished …

Alloparental care happens when a calf is cared for by an adult that is not their parent. Although
alloparental care is common in social mammals, its prevalence is difficult to assess in …

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. …

Understanding what factors drive patterns of genetic diversity is a central aspect of many
biological questions, ranging from the inference of historical demography to assessing the …

… Frasier for technical assistance with laboratory work. Funding for this project was
provided by The Canadian Wildlife Federation, Nova Scotia Habitat Conservation Fund (contributions …

Although historically distributed along the northeast coast of the United States (US), grey
seals ( Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791)) were considered locally extinct until the late …