Detection of multiple paternity and sperm storage in a captive colony of the central Asian tortoise, Testudo horsfieldii

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 520-526

  Johnston, Emily E ^a   Rand, Matthew S ^a   Zweifel, Stephan G ^a  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; DATA REDUCTION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES;

HETEROZYGOSITIES; TESTUDO HORSFIELDII; TORTOISE;

BIODIVERSITY;

CAPTIVE POPULATION; COLONY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FITNESS; GENOTYPE; MATING BEHAVIOR; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REPTILE; SPERM;

ASIA; EURASIA;

GLYPTEMYS MUHLENBERGII; TESTUDINES; TESTUDO HORSFIELDII; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33745877621     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z06-023     Document Type: Article

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