Multi-year pair-bonding in Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii).

ABSTRACT: Mating strategies in fishes are known to include polygyny, polyandry and monogamy and provide valuable insights regarding powerful evolutionary forces such as sexual selection. Monogamy is a complex of mating systems that has been relatively neglected. Previous work on mating strategies in fishes has often been based on observation and focused on marine species rather than freshwater fishes. SNPs are increasingly being used as a molecular ecology tool in non-model organisms, and methods of probabilistic genetic analysis of such datasets are becoming available for use in the absence of parental genotypes. This approach can be used to infer mating strategies. The long-term pair bonding seen in mammals, reptiles and birds has not been recorded in freshwater fishes-in every other respect an ex

SUBMITTER: Couch AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7733648 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature