Evidence of multiple paternity and mate selection for inbreeding avoidance in wild eastern chipmunks.

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Mate selection for inbreeding avoidance is documented in several taxa. In mammals, most conclusive evidence comes from captive experiments that control for the availability of mates and for the level of genetic relatedness between mating partners. However, the importance of mate selection for inbreeding avoidance as a determinant of siring success in the wild has rarely been addressed. We followed the...

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• Genotype
• Inbreeding
• Mating Preference, Animal
• Microsatellite Repeats
• Sciuridae