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Molecular parentage analysis in experimental newt populations: the response of mating system measures to variation in the operational sex ratio.
The American naturalist - 1 Oct 2004
Jones Adam G, Arguello J Roman, Arnold Stevan J
Abstract excerpt
Molecular studies of parentage have been extremely influential in the study of sexual selection in the last decade, but a consensus statistical method for the characterization of genetic mating systems has not yet emerged. Here we study the utility of alternative mating system measures by experimentally altering the intensity of sexual selection in laboratory-based breeding populations of the rough-skinned newt....
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