Paternity analysis in the golden egg bug using AFLPs: Do the males preferentially accept their true genetic offspring?

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 444-455

  Garcia Gonzalez F ^a,c   Nunez Y ^b   Ponz, F ^b   Roldan E R S ^a   Gomendio, M ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b INIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

DNA fingerprinting; Exclusion probability; Genetic relatedness; Golden egg bug; Intraspecific brood parasitism; Molecular markers; Parental care; Paternity; Phyllomorpha laciniata

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; PATERNAL CARE; PATERNITY;

COREIDAE; HETEROPTERA; PHYLLOMORPHA LACINIATA;

EID: 27744454635     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6946.2005.00713.x     Document Type: Article

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