Seasonal monogamy and multiple paternity in a wild population of a territorial reptile (tuatara)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 161-170

  Moore, Jennifer A ^a,c   Daugherty, Charles H ^a   Godfrey, Stephanie S ^b   Nelson, Nicola J ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST   (United States)

Author keywords

Large male advantage; Mate guarding; Microsatellite DNA; New Zealand; Polyandry; Polygyny; Rhynchocephalia; Sphenodon punctatus; Stephens Island

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DNA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC VARIATION; MATE GUARDING; MONOGAMY; PATERNITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REPTILE; WILD POPULATION;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

REPTILIA; SPHENODON PUNCTATUS; SPHENODONTIA;

EID: 69449104986     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01271.x     Document Type: Article

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