For example, the theory on strategic investment propose that parental allocation decisions largely are driven by conscious investments strategies of the parents [24].
Finally, parental allocation by the fortune-maker seemed to be higher into their sons than their daughters since sons ranked higher up the billionaire list than daughters.
Parental allocation data indicated the F1 stocks to result from few founders, only five males and six females, in a total of nine pairings.
The program used for virtual offspring simulation and estimation of pairwise distances within different classes of relatedness is available upon request, as well as the one used for parental allocation.
Following parental allocation based on band sharing values, we set up a user-friendly tool for selection of candidate breeders according to relatedness between all possible parent-pairs that secures the use of non-related individuals.
Furthermore, sons were, on average, richer than daughters within the same family (mean of 178 ranks higher on billionaire list; paired t-test; t13 = 2.45, P = 0.029), suggesting that sons received greater parental allocation.
Finally, two complete families each composed by both parents plus 10 fingerlings were also sampled following artificial reproduction, and genotyped at genetic markers in order to test the reliability of the parental allocation procedure.
Parental allocation was conducted using PASOS (Duchesne et al. 2005).
For a majority of them (89, 6%), we obtained a complete genotype that was used for parental allocation (Table 1).
Parental allocation was performed using PAPA software [ 15] based on the known mating data to increase the accuracy of parental assignments [ 8].
