The strength of the association between heterozygosity and probability of interannual local recruitment increases with environmental harshness in blue tits.

When the subset of neutral loci was analyzed separately, g 2 values were also always positive and differed significantly from zero in 2009 and 2010 and were marginally nonsignificant in 2011 ( p = .087) and 2012 ( p = .077) (Table S2).

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However, when we analyzed the relationship between annual rates of local recruitment and the variables used as proxies for environmental harshness, we only found a marginally significant trend with FDD (TNZ: r = .106, p = .842; FDD: r = −.774, p = .070; accumulated precipitation: r = −.394, p = .439). 3.2 Basic genetic statistics Observed heterozygosity at each locus ranged from 0.48 to 0.94, with 3–26 alleles per locus (Table S1).

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We also found a highly significant positive relationship between selection differentials ( S ) for heterozygosity and annual accumulated precipitation, which indicates that interannual differences in HFC may be explained by the different environmental conditions to which individuals are exposed each year (Armbruster & Reed, 2005 ; Fox & Reed, 2011 ; Marr et al., 2006 ).

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