Intracommunity relationships, dispersal pattern and paternity success in a wild living community of Bonobos (Pan paniscus) determined from DNA analysis of faecal samples

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1424, 1999, Pages 1189-1195

  Gerloff, Ulrike ^a   Hartung, Bianka ^a   Fruth, Barbara ^b,d   Hohmann, Gottfried ^b,d   Tautz, Diethard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microsatellites; Mitochondrial D loop; Philopatry; Primates

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

DISPERSAL; DOMINANCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PATERNITY; PRIMATE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ADOLESCENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FAMILY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPE; MALE; MATING; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PANISCUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0033532580     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0762     Document Type: Article

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