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Male dominance, paternity, and relatedness in the Jamaican fruit-eating bat (Artibeus jamaicensis).
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2003
Ortega Jorge, Maldonado Jesús E, Wilkinson Gerald S, Arita Héctor T, Fleischer Robert C
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We analysed variation at 14 nuclear microsatellite loci to assess the genetic structure, relatedness, and paternity of polygynous Jamaican fruit-eating bats. A total of 84 adults captured in two caves exhibited little genetic differentiation between caves (FST = 0.008). Average relatedness among...
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