No Evidence of Extra-Pair Fertilization in Red-footed Boobies (Sula sula)

Patricia C. Baião; Patricia G. Parker

doi:10.1675/063.032.0122

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Patricia C. Baião,¹ Patricia G. Parker^1,2

¹1University of Missouri—St. Louis, Department of Biology, One University Blvd., R223, St. Louis, MO,
²2Saint Louis Zoo, 1 Government Drive, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA

Abstract

Red-footed Boobies (Sula sula) belong to the Sulidae family and the order Pelicaniformes and are expected to present low rates of extra-pair paternity (EPP) due to several life history traits of seabirds. We found no evidence of EPP among 14 families of Red-footed Boobies nesting on Genovesa Island in the Galápagos archipelago using multilocus minisatellite DNA markers. The band-sharing values between parents and offspring ranged from 0.44 to 0.86 and those among unrelated individuals ranged from 0.07 to 0.4; all bands in offspring lanes were accounted for by those in the lanes of the putative parents.

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Patricia C. Baião and Patricia G. Parker "No Evidence of Extra-Pair Fertilization in Red-footed Boobies (Sula sula)," Waterbirds 32(1), 179-182, (1 March 2009). https://doi.org/10.1675/063.032.0122

Received: 25 January 2008; Accepted: 1 July 2008; Published: 1 March 2009

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