title: DNA fingerprinting provides evidence of discriminate suckling and non-random mating in little brown bats Myotis lucifugus.
abstract: Recent advances in DNA extraction and fingerprinting techniques allowed examination of genetic similarity of groups of Myotis lucifugus at maternity roosts. Mean percentage band-sharing between young was significantly higher than between mothers, suggesting fertilization success skewed for individual males or male lineages. Mean percentage band-sharing between presumed mothers and young was significantly higher than band-sharing between all other groups, suggesting that Myotis lucifugus preferentially suckle their own young.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Watt
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Fenton
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D000833:Animals, Suckling / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology*; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology*; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal