Kinship and social behavior of lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) in a central Amazon landscape

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Pinho, Gabriela M ^a,b   Gonçalves Da Silva, Anders ^c,d   Hrbek, Tomas ^b   Venticinque, Eduardo M ^e   Farias, Izeni P ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; LANDSCAPE; MALE; MAMMAL; MATING SYSTEM; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; POLYGAMY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION GENETICS; PROGENY; SIBLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TAPIRUS TERRESTRIS; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; GEOGRAPHY; PERISSODACTYLA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PERISSODACTYLA; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84899818728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092507     Document Type: Article

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