Parentage analysis with incomplete sampling of candidate parents and offspring.

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Many breeding systems include 'multiple mating' in which males or females mate with multiple partners. We identify two forms of multiple mating: 'single-sex', where the next-generation individuals (NGIs) are the product of multiple mating by one sex; and 'two-sex', where the NGIs are the product of multiple mating by both sexes. For both mating systems we develop models that estimate the proportion of NGIs that...

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