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MEK162 Pemberton. A. Bouwman, M. L. Berg, and J. Komdeur. 2007. Is extrapair mating random? On the probability distribution of extrapair young in avian broods. Behav. Ecol. 18:895?04. Burley, N. T., P. G. Parker, and K. Lundy. 1996. Sexual choice and extrapair fertilization inside a socially monogamous passerine, the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Behav. Ecol. 7:218?26. Charmantier, A., and D. Reale. 2005. How do misassigned paternities have an effect on the estimation of heritability in the wild? Mol. Ecol. 14:2839?850. Eliassen, S., and H. Kokko. 2008. Current analyses don't resolve regardless of whether extra-pair paternity is male or female driven. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 62:1795?804. Falconer, D. S., and T. F. C. Mackay.N heritability involving sexually and nonsexually chosen traits (Alatalo et al. 1997), the possibility that the effects are driven by biases in estimation need to be acknowledged. In conclusion, although pedigree errors in wild populations only lead to minor underestimation of heritability of unique traits (Keller et al. 2001; Charmantier and Reale 2005; Berenos et al. 2014), an association with EPP may possibly influence this. Nevertheless, traits of low heritability seem to be comparatively unaffected by this, and, even for traits with larger heritability, the social pedigree remains adequate in all however the most extreme scenarios. This demonstrates the common utility of social pedigrees under most situations, despite the fact that additional consideration of multiple systems and many quantitative genetic parameters is now required to guide our amount of assurance in utilizing long-term social pedigrees in understanding evolutionary processes.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank all fieldworkers who collected data and blood samples from the Wytham wonderful tit population. Our thanks also goes to all these involved in DNA extraction and genotyping of your samples, J. Reid for discussion, also as J. Dudycha, M. Morrissey, and 1 anonymous reviewer for beneficial comments that drastically enhanced the manuscript. The work was funded by a studentship from All-natural Atmosphere Research Council (NERC) to JAF, a Royal Society University Analysis Fellowship to JDH,an European Study Council (ERC) starting title= srep30523 grant (GA202487) to JS, and an ERC Sophisticated Grant (AdG 250164) to BCS. JAF, JDH, and BCS designed the research. JAF and JDH analyzed the data. JDH derived the analytical model. JS and AS generated the SNP dataset. JAF wrote the first draft of your manuscript and JDH, AWS, JS, and BCS contributed substantially to additional drafts. Information ARCHIVING Data readily available in the Dryad Digital Repository: title= s13569-016-0053-3 http://dx.doi.org/ ten.5061/dryad.7nb81. LITERATURE CITEDAkcay, E., and J. Roughgarden. 2007. Extra-pair paternity in birds: review of the genetic added benefits. Evol. Ecol. Res. 9:855?68. Alatalo, R. V., J. Mappes, and M. A. Elgar. 1997. Heritabilities and paradigm shifts. Nature 385:402?03. Alatalo, R. Ellis, J. G. Pilkington, and J. Sperm Competitors in Birds: Evolutionary Causes and Consequences. Academic, London. Blakey, title= 21645515.2016.1212143 J. K. 1994. Genetic-evidence for extra-pair fertilizations in a monogamous passerine, the terrific tit Parus-major. Ibis 136:457?62. Brommer, J. E., P. Korsten, K. A. Bouwman, M. L. Berg, and J. Komdeur. 2007. Is extrapair mating random? Around the probability distribution of extrapair young in avian broods. Behav. Ecol.