Male-female mating tactics and paternity of wild Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata yakui).

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For Japanese macaques, visits by nontroop males (NTMs) often diminish the immediate copulation success of high-ranking males, although few studies have conducted a genetic analysis to show their contribution to the gene pool. I used noninvasively collected samples of semen, blood, urine and feces for the analysis of paternity in nine offspring born in two troops living on the island of Yakushima, Japan. I found...

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