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Multiple sirehood in free-ranging twin rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)
- Source :
- American Journal of Primatology. 57:31-34
- Publication Year :
- 2002
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2002.
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Abstract
- Rhesus macaque females regularly copulate with a number of partners, and produce a single offspring per reproductive cycle in over 99% of cases. We used genotyping of 10 STR markers to determine paternity in the Cayo Santiago population of rhesus macaques. About 1,500 monkeys have been analyzed to date, with their marker genotypes entered into a computerized database. These data enable us to report the first documented case in any cercopithecine nonhuman primate species of the production of twin offspring sired by different males.
- Subjects :
- education.field_of_study
Free ranging
biology
Offspring
media_common.quotation_subject
Dizygotic twin
Population
Zoology
biology.organism_classification
Nonhuman primate
Rhesus macaque
Animal Science and Zoology
Reproduction
education
Genotyping
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Demography
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02752565
- Volume :
- 57
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Primatology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........03d9e6258660cb683fec08909c76fcb3