Microsatellite DNA Fingerprinting Confirms Dizygotic Twinning and Paternity in The Allied Rock-wallaby, Petrogale assimilis (Marsupialia: Macropodidae)

P.B.S. Spencer; H. Marsh

doi:10.1071/AM97279

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Microsatellite DNA Fingerprinting Confirms Dizygotic Twinning and Paternity in The Allied Rock-wallaby, Petrogale assimilis (Marsupialia: Macropodidae)

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Microsatellite DNA Fingerprinting Confirms Dizygotic Twinning and Paternity in The Allied Rock-wallaby, Petrogale assimilis (Marsupialia: Macropodidae)

P.B.S. Spencer and H. Marsh

Australian mammalogy, Vol.19(2), pp.279-280

1996

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/AM97279

Abstract

Since 1986, 306 pouch young births have been recorded from 69 females in a long-term study of Petrogale assimilis at Black Rock (19°05' S, 144°27' E) on Lyndhurst Station, 250km west of Townsville. Three sets of twins were recorded, representing 0.98% of births.

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Title: Microsatellite DNA Fingerprinting Confirms Dizygotic Twinning and Paternity in The Allied Rock-wallaby, Petrogale assimilis (Marsupialia: Macropodidae)
Authors/Creators: P.B.S. Spencer
H. Marsh
Publication Details: Australian mammalogy, Vol.19(2), pp.279-280
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Identifiers: 991005579944807891
Murdoch Affiliation: School of Environmental and Conservation Sciences; Centre for Terrestrial Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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