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KINDIST
KINDIST is a free software to estimate the distribution of pollen dispersal distances from mother-offspring diploid codominant genotypic data. It requires the spatial coordinates and genotypes of a sample of seed-plants and their respective maternal progenies. Details about the method can be found in:
Robledo-Arnuncio JJ, Austerlitz F, Smouse PE (2006) A new method of estimating the pollen dispersal curve independently of effective density. Genetics 173: 1033-1045. [abstract] [pdf]
KINDIST is integrated in POLDISP software package.
ESPM
ESPM (Estimation of Seed and Pollen Migration Rates) is a free software to estimate seed and pollen dispersal among plant populations. It provides maximum-likelihood estimates of the contemporary rates of seed and pollen immigration from each of a set of discrete candidate source populations into a target recipient population. It also yields confidence intervals around each estimate, based on the profile-likelihood method. Details about the method can be found in:
ESPM can be downloaded here.
PSA
PSA (Parental Structure Analysis) is a free software to characterize the parental structure of dispersed seeds or newly established seedlings in terms of probabilities of parental identity and effective parental size. PSA requires a combined pericarp-leaf genotypic assay of seed(ling) samples collected from a set of predefined patches, using diploid markers. Estimates are obtained through the computation of pairwise kinship coefficients among offspring pairs, and standard errors are calculated via bootstrap resampling over individuals within patches. Details about the method can be found in:
Robledo-Arnuncio JJ, Grivet D, Smouse PE, Sork VL (2012) PSA: software for parental structure analysis of seed or seedling patches. Molecular Ecology Resources 12: 1180-1189. [abstract] [pdf]
PSA can be downloaded here.
Last modified 24/10/2012