TY  - JOUR
A1  - Girndt, Antje
A1  - Riesch, Rüdiger
A1  - Schröder, Christiane
A1  - Sehlupp, Ingo
A1  - Plath, Martin
A1  - Tiedemann, Ralph
T1  - Multiple paternity in different populations of the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna
T2  - Animal biology
N2  - Rates of multiple paternities were investigated in the sailfin molly (Poecilia latipinna), using eight microsatellite loci. Genotyping was performed for offspring and mothers in 40 broods from four allopatric populations from the south-eastern U.S.A. along a geographic stretch of 1200 km in west-east direction and approximately 200 km from north to south. No significant differences regarding rates of multiple paternities were found between populations despite sample populations stemming from ecologically divergent habitats. Even the most conservative statistical approach revealed a minimum of 70% of the broods being sired by at least two males, with an average of 1.80-2.95 putative fathers per brood. Within broods, one male typically sired far more offspring than would be expected under an assumed equal probability of all detected males siring offspring.
KW  - Promiscuity
KW  - mate choice
KW  - multiple paternity
KW  - sperm competition
KW  - Poeciliidae
Y1  - 2012
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36292
SN  - 1570-7555
VL  - 62
IS  - 3
SP  - 245
EP  - 262
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
ER  -