CERVUS3.0说明书(15)

parentage analysis program整理自软件help文件,下载过的朋友可以直接在help里查看。

Copyright and acknowledgements

Cervus is written and maintained by Dr Tristan Marshall at Field Genetics Ltd. Cervus is © Copyright Tristan Marshall 1998-2012.

Thanks to Steven Kalinowski and Mark Taper for developing the revised likelihood equations implemented in Cervus 3.0, to David Bancroft, Simon Goodman and Bill Amos for providing code at various times that helped in the development of Cervus and to Josephine Pemberton, Sarah Helyar, Thor Veen, Hannah Dugdale and Christy Gladney for testing Cervus 3.0 and providing very useful feedback. Thanks also to Josephine Pemberton for the red deer data used in the example files and to Loeske Kruuk for the photo of the red deer stag used as the Cervus logo. Conditions of use

Cervus 3.0 is available for download from under the following conditions:

1. The Cervus program and accompanying documentation are believed to be accurate and free from bugs or defects, but no warranty is given in this respect. Although the material has been prepared carefully, no warranty is given that it will fulfil any specific requirement of the user or that it will function in any particular manner. The user, accordingly, accepts the material 'as is'.

2. Users may not distribute Cervus to third parties.

3. Users in commercial organisations may download Cervus for evaluation but must pay a licence fee before using Cervus for commercial research or as part of a service provided to clients. Users of Cervus in academic institutions, government institutions, charities and other non-commercial organisations do not need to pay a licence fee provided that their work has no commercial purpose.

4. In academic publications the use of Cervus must be acknowledged by citing .