Article
No evidence for illegitimate young in monogamous and polygynous warblers.
Nature - 11 Jan 1990
Gyllensten U B, Jakobsson S, Temrin H
Abstract excerpt
In animals with internal fertilization, paternity is uncertain. In birds, the occurrence of copulations outside the pair-bond has been documented in a number of species, but the extent to which these result in illegitimate young is largely unknown, and constitutes a major deficiency in our understanding of avian mating systems. The analysis of tandemly repeated sequences (minisatellites), has enhanced our ability...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Birds
- Copulation
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA Probes
- DNA, Satellite
- Female
- Fertilization
- Male
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Sexual Behavior, Animal