Parentage analysis of Ansell's mole‐rat family groups indicates a high reproductive skew despite relatively relaxed ecological constraints on dispersal

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Molecular Ecology

• Publication date

  2013-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/mec.12434PMID 23992451
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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