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| Packer, C.; Pusey, A.E. | |
| Dispersal, Kinship, and Inbreeding in African Lions | |
| 1993 Book Chapter | |
The lion populations of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater are among the best-studied vertebrate populations in the world and we have recently combined long-term genealogical data with DNA fingerprinting. In this chapter we review lion dispersal patterns and their effect on the incidence of close inbreeding, we discuss how DNA fingerprinting can be used to measure kinship and therefore to determine relatedness between mates, and we examine the consequences of inbreeding on lion reproductive performance. |
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