Who's your daddy? Paternity testing reveals promiscuity and multiple paternity in the carnivorous marsupial Dasyurus maculatus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-7

  Glen, Alistair S ^a,b   Cardoso, Maria J ^c   Dickman, Chris R ^b   Firestone, Karen B ^c,d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d Zoological Parks Board of NSW   (Australia)

Author keywords

Polyandry; Quoll; Sexual dimorphism; Sexual selection; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CARNIVORE; DNA; MARSUPIAL; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; RELATEDNESS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPERM COMPETITION; TESTING METHOD;

DASYURIDAE; DASYURUS; DASYURUS MACULATUS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 58149093228     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01094.x     Document Type: Article

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