Who's your daddy? Paternity testing reveals promiscuity and multiple paternity in the carnivorous marsupial Dasyurus maculatus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae)
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Paternity Testing
Paternity testing can be done by older methods including ABO blood group typing, analysis of various other proteins and enzymes, or using human leukocyte antigen (HLA). However, DNA testing became the only formal and exact method for the paternity testing now. For DNA testing of paternity determination, the DNA collection using an easily obtained cheek swab saliva sample. Fast, proprietary and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0024-4066,1095-8312
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01094.x