Genetic relatedness in winter populations of seasonally gregarious southern flying squirrels, Glaucomys volans

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 897-904

  Thorington, Katherine K ^a,b   Metheny, Jackie D ^c   Kalcounis Rueppell, Matina C ^c   Weigl, Peter D ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Salem College   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Glaucomys volans; group nesting; kinship; microsatellite DNA; southern flying squirrel; winter aggregation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; DIET; FITNESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GENETIC MARKER; GROUP BEHAVIOR; KINSHIP; MATE CHOICE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NESTING; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RODENT; THERMOREGULATION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; GLAUCOMYS VOLANS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 77955889137     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/09-MAMM-A-238.1     Document Type: Article

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