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How many daddies: microsatellite genotyping reveals polyandry in a live-bearing clinid fish Muraenoclinus dorsalis.
Journal of fish biology - 1 May 2018
Schulze M J, Henriques R, Feldheim K A, Bowie R C K, von der Heyden S
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Fishes belonging to the family Clinidae in South Africa display super-embryonation, a rare reproductive mode were females gestate broods at different gestational stages, but little is known regarding the mating systems of this family. Here we tested the hypothesis that multiple males would contribute not only to the offspring of each female, but that several males would contribute to each brood, by sampling...
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