Genetic analysis of group composition and relatedness in whiteheaded langurs

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 410-416

  Liu, Zhijin ^a   Huang, Chengming ^a,b   Zhou, Qihai ^b   Li, Youbang ^b   Wang, Yuefeng ^b   Li, Ming ^a   Takenaka, Osamu ^c   Takenaka, Akiko ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b GUANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA BUNRI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Langur; Microsatellites; Paternity; Reproductive strategy; Trachypithecus poliocephalus leucocephalus

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; COLOBINAE; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; LANGUR; MALE; MICROSATELLITES; PATERNITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SRY GENE; TRACHYPITHECUS POLIOCEPHALUS LEUCOCEPHALUS;

LANGUR; MICROSATELLITES; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; TRACHYPITHECUS POLIOCEPHALUS LEUCOCEPHALUS;

ANIMALS; CHINA; COLOBINAE; DNA PRIMERS; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; FEMALE; GENES, SRY; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DETERMINATION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84902121098     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12048     Document Type: Article

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