The degree of extra-pair paternity increases with genetic variability.

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  1998-08-04

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1073/PNAS.95.16.9390PMID 9689090PMCID PMC21348
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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