Multiple sirehood in free-ranging twin rhesus macaques (macaca mulatta)

Authors :: Bercovitch, Fred B.
Widdig, Anja
Berard, John D.
Nurnberg, Peter
Kessler, Matt J.
Schmidtke, Jorg
Trefilov, Andrea
Krawczak, Michael
Source :: American Journal of Primatology. May, 2002, Vol. 57 Issue 1, p31, 4 p.
Publication Year :: 2002
Abstract: Research investigates the occurrence of multiple sirehood in free-ranging twin rhesus macaques, in which females copulate with three males during each reproductive cycle. Data indicate that one set of free ranging rhesus, out of five tested, bore multiple sires as shown by short tandem repeat genotyping.