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Genetic evidence for male biased dispersal in the red-billed quelea Quelea quelea.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2002
Dallimer M, Blackburn C, Jones P J, Pemberton J M
Abstract excerpt
In order to detect sex-biased dispersal in the red-billed quelea Quelea quelea in southern Africa, we used the assignment index technique to determine the probability that individuals originated from the population in which they were sampled. This is the first time that this multilocus genetic test has been used in a bird species and is informative despite evidence that the population under study exhibits little...
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