Comprehensive paternity assignment: Genotype, spatial location and social status in song sparrows, Melospiza Melodia

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 4352-4364

  Sardell, Rebecca J ^a   Keller, Lukas F ^b   Arcese, Peter ^c   Bucher, Thomas ^b   Reid, Jane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CERVUS; MasterBayes; mating system; polyandry; polygyny

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; CERVUS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; MASTERBAYES; MATING SYSTEM; POLYANDRY; POLYGYNY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPARROW; STATISTICAL MODEL; TERRITORIALITY;

CERVUS; MASTERBAYES; MATING SYSTEM; POLYANDRY; POLYGYNY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BRITISH COLUMBIA; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPARROWS; TERRITORIALITY;

MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA;

EID: 77957242799     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04805.x     Document Type: Article

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