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Confirmation of low genetic diversity and multiple breeding females in a social group of Eurasian badgers from microsatellite and field data.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2003
Domingo-Roura X, Macdonald D W, Roy M S, Marmi J, Terradas J, Woodroffe R, Burke T, Wayne R K
Abstract excerpt
The Eurasian badger (Meles meles) is a facultatively social carnivore that shows only rudimentary co-operative behaviour and a poorly defined social hierarchy. Behavioural evidence and limited genetic data have suggested that more than one female may breed in a social group. We combine pregnancy detection by ultrasound and microsatellite locus scores from a well-studied badger population from Wytham Woods,...
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