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From: Extra-pair paternity in the socially monogamous white stork (Ciconia ciconia) is fairly common and independent of local density

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Decision tree for assigning relationships based on the ML-Relate | Colony2 two-program congruency method.

In cases where Colony2 produced the same relationships as those found significant in ML-Relate, the suggested relationship was accepted. In cases where ML-Relate could not produce statistically significant relationships, if the most likely relationship was nearly significant (in cases of two nestlings per nest) or was biologically correct based on other significant relationships within the nest (e.g. in a nest of three nestlings, when all three pair-wise comparisons were classified as full-sibling, but only two pair-wise comparisons were statistically significant) and this set of relationships matched the family-wise relationship produced in Colony2, the relationships were accepted. In cases where no reasonable conclusion could be produced based on ML-Relate no classification for the pair was made.

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