Highly asymmetric fine-scale genetic structure between sexes of African striped mice and indication for condition dependent alternative male dispersal tactics

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1624-1634

  Solmsen, N ^a   Johannesen, J ^a   Schradin, C ^b,c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

body mass; female philopatry; habitat independent dispersal; reproductive tactics; Rhabdomys pumilio

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BODY SIZE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; INBREEDING; MALE; MOUSE; MURINAE; POPULATION GENETICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HETEROZYGOTE; INBREEDING; MALE; MICE; MURINAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

MUS; RHABDOMYS PUMILIO;

EID: 79953777222     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05042.x     Document Type: Article

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