Microsatellite markers for paternity testing in the Willow warbler Phylloscopus trochilus: High frequency of extra-pair young in an island population

Hereditas

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-132

  Fridolfsson, Anna Karin ^a,b   Gyllensten, Ulf B ^a   Jakobsson, Sven ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA MARKER; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BIRD; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY TEST; POPULATION GENETICS;

AVES; GYMNORHINA TIBICEN; PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS; SALIX; TIBICEN; TROCHILUS;

EID: 0030855691     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1997.00127.x     Document Type: Article

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