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Social constraint and an absence of sex-biased dispersal drive fine-scale genetic structure in white-winged choughs.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2008
Beck N R, Peakall R, Heinsohn R
Abstract excerpt
This study used eight polymorphic microsatellite loci to examine the relative effects of social organization and dispersal on fine-scale genetic structure in an obligately cooperative breeding bird, the white-winged chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos). Using both individual-level and population-level analyses, it was found that the majority of chough groups consisted of close relatives and there was significant...
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