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Other recent papers discussing the assignment test and related approaches to investigating dispersal include:

Davies, N., F. X. Villablanca, and G. K. Roderick. 1999. Determining the source of individuals: multilocus genotyping in nonequilibrium population genetics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14:17-21.

Favre, L., F. Balloux, J. Goudet, and N. Perrin. 1997. Female-biased dispersal in the monogamous mammal Crocidura russula: evidence from field data and microsatellite patterns. Proceedings of the Royal Society London (B) 264:127-132.

Luikart, G., and P. R. England. 1999. Statistical analysis of microsatellite data. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14:253-255.

Mossman, C. A., and P. M. Waser. 1999. Genetic detection of sex-biased dispersal. Molecular Ecology 8:1063-1067.

Paetkau, D., W. Calvert, W. Stirling, and W. Strobeck. 1995. Microsatellite analysis of population structure in Canadian polar bears. Molecular Ecology 4:347-354.

Paetkau, D., L. P. Waits, P. L. Clarkson, L. Craighead, and C. Strobeck. 1997. An empirical evaluation of genetic distance statistics using microsatellite data from bear (Ursidae) populations. Genetics 147:1943-1947.

Paetkau, D., G. F. Shields, and C. Strobeck. 1998. Gene flow between insular, coastal and interior populations of brown bears in Alaska. Molecular Ecology 7:1283-1292.

Paetkau, D., S. C. Amstrup, E. W. Born, W. Calvert, A. E. Derocher, G. W. Garner, F. Messier, I. Stirling, M. K. Taylor, O. Wiig, and C. Strobeck. 1999. Genetic structure of the world's polar bear populations. Molecular Ecology 8:1571-1584.

Rannala, B., and J. L. Mountain. 1997. Detecting immigration using multilocus genotypes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 94:9197-9201.

Raymond, M., and F. Rousset. 1995. GENEPOP (version 1.2): population genetics software for exact tests and ecumenicism. Journal of Heredity 86:248-249.

Roques, S., P. Duchesne, and L. Bernatchez. 1999. Potential of microsatellites for individual assignment: the North Atlantic redfish (genus Sebastes) species complex as a case study. Molecular Ecology 4:1703-1717.

Shriver, M. D., M. W. Smith, L. Jin, A. Marcini, J. M. Akey, R. Deka, and R. E. Ferrell. 1997. Ethnic-affiliation estimation by use of population-specific DNA markers. American Journal of Human Genetics 60:957-964.

Waser, P. M., and C. Strobeck. 1998. Genetic signatures of interpopulation dispersal. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13:43-44.

Waser, P. M., C. Strobeck, and D. Paetkau. in press. Estimating interpopulation dispersal rates. in J. L. Gittleman, S. M. Funk, D. W. Macdonald and R. K. Wayne, editors. Carnivore Conservation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.