Paternity in an Orinoco Population of Endangered Arrau River Turtles, Podocnemis expansa (Pleurodira; Podocnemididae), from Venezuela

We used genetic data from 7 microsatellite loci to determine the frequency of multiple paternity in clutches of giant Amazon river turtles, Podocnemis expansa, from the Orinoco River in Venezuela. Among hatchlings sampled from 32 clutches, paternity analysis found that a minimum of 10.3% could concl...

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