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Paternity exclusion in a community of wild chimpanzees using hypervariable simple sequence repeats.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 1994
Morin P A, Wallis J, Moore J J, Woodruff D S
Abstract excerpt
We report the use of hypervariable simple sequence repeat (SSR) nuclear loci to study paternity in a community of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. All 43 living members of a habituated community were sampled and 35 were genotyped at 8 SSR loci using DNA amplified from hair. Paternity exclusions were performed for 25 chimpanzees including 10 for whom the mother...
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