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Parentage and relatedness in captive and natural populations of the Roseate Spoonbill (Aves: Ciconiiformes) based on microsatellite data.
Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological genetics and physiology - 1 Jul 2009
Miño Carolina Isabel, Sawyer Gregory Martin, Benjamin Robert Curliss, Del Lama Silvia Nassif
Abstract excerpt
This study constitutes a first approach to evaluate the use of genetic information and relatedness estimators in the investigation of questions related to mating system and parentage in ex situ and in situ populations of the Roseate Spoonbill. We assessed the parentage assignments in 17 supposed families from US captive populations and investigated the genetic relationships among 67 nestlings sampled within 28...
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