Multiple paternity assessed in the cuttlefish Sepiella japonica (Mollusca, Cephalopoda) using microsatellite markers

Multiple paternity was demonstrated for seven clutches of eggs and 40 offspring sampled from these clutches in the cuttlefish Sepiella japonica from Fujian Shacheng Harbor Cultivation Base (Fujian Province, China), using four microsatellite DNA markers. It was observed that female cuttlefish copulat...

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Main Authors: Liqin Liu, Yao Zhang, Xiaoyu Hu, Zhenming Lü, Bingjian Liu, Li Hua Jiang, Li Gong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2019-10-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/33569/download/pdf/