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Sex-linked and autosomal microsatellites provide new insights into island populations of the tammar wallaby.
Heredity - 1 Mar 2014
MacDonald A J, Fitzsimmons N N, Chambers B, Renfree M B, Sarre S D
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The emerging availability of microsatellite markers from mammalian sex chromosomes provides opportunities to investigate both male- and female-mediated gene flow in wild populations, identifying patterns not apparent from the analysis of autosomal markers alone. Tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii), once spread over the southern mainland, have been isolated on several islands off the Western Australian and South...
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