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Multiple sirehood in free-ranging twin rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).
American journal of primatology - 1 May 2002
Bercovitch Fred B, Widdig Anja, Berard John D, Nürnberg Peter, Kessler Matt J, Schmidtke Jörg, Trefilov Andrea, Krawczak Michael
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Rhesus macaque females regularly copulate with a number of partners, and produce a single offspring per reproductive cycle in over 99% of cases. We used genotyping of 10 STR markers to determine paternity in the Cayo Santiago population of rhesus macaques. About 1,500 monkeys have been analyzed t...
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