Are indirect genetic benefits associated with polyandry? Testing predictions in a natural population of lemon sharks

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 783-795

  DiBattista, Joseph D ^a   Feldheim, Kevin A ^b   Gruber, Samuel H ^c   Hendry, Andrew P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitness; Heterozygosity; Indirect genetic benefits; Internal relatedness; Microsatellites; Polyandry

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHARK; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DNA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SHARKS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CHONDRICHTHYES; CITRUS LIMON; NEGAPRION; NEGAPRION BREVIROSTRIS;

EID: 38349169830     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03623.x     Document Type: Article

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