Neighbouring-group composition and within-group relatedness drive extra-group paternity rate in the European badger (Meles meles)

Extra-group paternity (EGP) occurs commonly among group-living mammals and plays an important role in mating systems and the dynamics of sexual selection; however, socio-ecological and genetic correlates of EGP have been underexplored. We use 23 years of demographic and genetic data from a high-dens...

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Main Authors: Annavi, Geetha, Newman, Chris, Dugdale, Hannah L., Buesching, Christina D., Sin, Yung Wa, Burke, Terry, Macdonald, David W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: John Wiley & Sons 2014
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34636/
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