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Single paternity of clutches and sperm storage in the promiscuous green turtle (Chelonia mydas).
Molecular ecology - 1 May 1998
Fitzsimmons N N
Abstract excerpt
Paternity of 22 green turtle (Chelonia mydas) clutches from 13 females of the southern Great Barrier Reef breeding population was determined through microsatellite analyses at five loci, including the analysis of successive clutches for nine of the females. A large number of alleles per locus (10-40) provided probabilities of detecting multiple paternity that were quite high, particularly at all loci combined...
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