'O father: Where art thou?' - Paternity assessment in an open fission-fusion society of wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) in Shark Bay, Western Australia

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1975-1990

  Krützen, Michael ^a   Barré, Lynne M ^b   Connor, Richard C ^c   Mann, Janet ^d   Sherwin, William B ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliance formation; Bayesian inference of paternity; Bottlenose dolphin; Paternity index; Tursiops sp.

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOPERATION; DOLPHIN; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DOLPHINS; FEMALE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CETACEA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CORYPHAENIDAE; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 3042786564     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2004.02192.x     Document Type: Article

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