Disentangling the mechanisms of mate choice in a captive koala population
Successful captive breeding programs are crucial to the long-term survival of many threatened species. However, pair incompatibility (breeding failure) limits sustainability of many captive populations. Understanding whether the drivers of this incompatibility are behavioral, genetic, or a combinati...
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PeerJ Inc.
2018-08-01
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/5438.pdf |