A large number of studies have been carried out with the purpose of estimating the amount of gene flow in different plant species. This is typically done by arranging two plant genotypes, homozygeous for two different alleles, in an experimental field, let the two genotypes interbreed, and collect seeds pollinated by one of the genotypes from a subset of the plants in experiment. The number of seeds pollinated by donor pollen out of the total number of seeds collected from each plant can then be used to draw inferences about the underlying probability distribution of the pollen dispersal displacements.
This document describes the usage of a program I wrote in to fit various distributions to this kind of data. The model used is described in two publications [2,1]. These two papers are essential reading before using the program. This guide describes the command line based interface to the program.
Readers who prefer to read a printed version of this manual can download the postscript version of the manual from this url and the pdf version from here. The program itself consists of one file which can be downloaded from this url
To start the program type
binomplnat the DOS command prompt. You will then enter the interface of binompln.