Paternity and the Relatedness of Helpers in the Cooperatively Breeding Bell Miner
- 1 May 1998
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 100 (2) , 343-349
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1370275
Abstract
We used multi-locus DNA fingerprinting to determine the parentage of 13 broods of Bell Miner (Manorina melanophrys) nestlings. Despite very large contingents of...Keywords
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