Relatedness. The "relatedness” of the field of study shall be determined by the Superintendent upon consultation with the employee and his/her immediate supervisor. It is understood that certain required courses in an Associate’s Degree may be of a general nature, not specifically in any given field.
Relatedness. To assess raccoon relatedness and social structure as well as how that might relate to patterns of rabies infection, average within-group relatedness and pairwise individual relatedness calculations were conducted in Relatedness 5.0.8 (Queller and Goodnight 1989). A matched-pair design was used to look for differences between rabid and non- rabid individuals with similar spatial distributions. The average distance between rabid raccoon captures was calculated for this purpose. Differences in infected vs. non-infected individuals were also examined by sex and were determined using the same design. Additionally, average relatedness was examined as a function of distance. Relatedness estimates can range from -1 to +1, with 0 indicating that individuals are no more or less likely to be related than 2 individuals selected from the population at random. Positive values indicate that individuals are more likely to be related whereas negative values indicate that they are less likely to be related. Standard errors and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were determined via jackknifing over loci.
Relatedness. For raccoons in general, average relatedness declined with increasing distance (Figure 2.5). 0.25 0 0 0.5 1 Distance (km) 1.5 2 Average relatedness (2.5a) Average relatedness (2.5b) 0.35 0.3 0.15 0.05 0 0 0.5 1 Distance (km)
