Microsatellite DNA loci identify individuals and provide no evidence for multiple paternity in wild tuatara (Sphenodon: Reptilia)

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1039-1043

  Hay, Jennifer M ^a,b   Lambert, David M ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Microsatellite DNA; New Zealand; Paternity; Sphenodon; Tuatara

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; DNA; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; KINSHIP; MULTIPLE MATING; PATERNITY; REPTILE; SIBLING; WILD POPULATION;

AUSTRALASIA; BROTHERS ISLAND; MARLBOROUGH; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; STEPHENS ISLAND;

REPTILIA; SPHENODON; SPHENODON PUNCTATUS; SPHENODONTIDAE;

EID: 44649097437     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-007-9445-5     Document Type: Article

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