Genotyping faeces reveals facultative kin association on capercaillie's leks

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 665-674

  Regnaut, Sébastien ^a   Christe, Philippe ^a   Chapuisat, Michel ^a   Fumagalli, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Capercaillie; Genetic structure; Lek mating system; Microsatellites; Non invasive sampling; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FECES; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; KIN SELECTION; LEK; POPULATION DECLINE; RELATEDNESS;

AVES; TETRAO UROGALLUS;

EID: 33749256435     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-005-9097-2     Document Type: Article

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