Male-biased mutation rates and the overestimation of extrapair paternity: Problem, solution, and illustration using thick-billed murres (Uria lomvia, Alcidae)

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 209-216

  Ibarguchi, G ^a   Gissing, G J ^a   Gaston, A J ^b   Boag, P T ^a   Friesen, V L ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL FATHER; BIOLOGICAL MOTHER; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EXTRA PAIR PATERNITY; FATHER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM LINE; HAPLOTYPE; HYPERVARIABLE GENE LOCUS; MALE; MALE BIASED MUTATION RATE; MOTHER; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PARENT OFFSPRING MISMATCH; PARENTAL MISASSIGNMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY OF RESEMBLANCE; PROGENY; SEABIRD; STATISTICS; THICK BILLED MURRES; URIA LOMVIA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CYTOCHROMES B; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NUNAVUT; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ALCIDAE; ANIMALIA; LARIDAE; URIA LOMVIA;

EID: 3142730567     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esh029     Document Type: Article

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