Using probability modelling and genetic parentage assignment to test the role of local mate availability in mating system variation

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 572-586

  Blyton, Michaela D J ^a   Banks, Sam C ^b   Peakall, Rod ^a   Lindenmayer, David B ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

mate availability; mating system; monogamy; probability modelling; Trichosurus cunninghami

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRICHOSURUS;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TRICHOSURUS;

TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS CANINUS;

EID: 84855907211     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05252.x     Document Type: Article

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