Noninvasive paternity assignment in Gombe chimpanzees

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1279-1300

  Constable, Julie L ^a   Ashley, Mary V ^b   Goodall, Jane ^c   Pusey, Anne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c The Jane Goodall Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Inbreeding; Mating strategies; Microsatellites; Noninvasive sampling; Paternity

Indexed keywords

DNA ANALYSIS; EXTRA PAIR PATERNITY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HAIR; INBREEDING; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FECES; FEMALE; HAIR; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PATERNITY; TANZANIA;

MAMMALIA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES SCHWEINFURTHII; TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0035017125     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2001.01262.x     Document Type: Article

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