Low reproductive success in territorial male Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) suggests the existence of alternative mating strategies

• Published in: Molecular Ecology
• Main Authors: Gemmell, Neil J., Burg, Theresa M., Boyd, Ian L., Amos, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Blackwell 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Bird Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seal; Antarctic Fur Seals; Arctocephalus gazella
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/18603/; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-294X.2001.01186.x/abstract

Microsatellites were used to conduct an analysis of paternity of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) from Bird Island, South Georgia. At most, only 28% of pups at our study site could be assigned a father, even though the majority (~90%) of candidate males within this colony were sampled. Th...