Genetic evidence for polygamy as a mating strategy in caiman crocodilus

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 485-492

  Oliveira, Deyla P ^a   Marioni, Boris ^b   Farias, Izeni P ^a   Hrbek, Tomas ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b Amazon Caiman Conservation Program   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Caiman crocodilus; microsatellites; multiyear multiple paternity analysis; Purus river; system of mating

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CAIMAN; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MONOGAMY; GENOTYPE; HATCHLING; MALE; MATING SYSTEM; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; POLYGAMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ALLELE; ANIMAL; BRAZIL; CROCODILIAN; GENETICS; MATE CHOICE; PHYSIOLOGY;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELES; ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; BREEDING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS;

EID: 84902244553     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esu020     Document Type: Article

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