Microsatellite DNA Fingerprinting Confirms Dizygotic Twinning and Paternity in The Allied Rock-wallaby, Petrogale assimilis (Marsupialia: Macropodidae).

Abstract

Since 1986, 306 pouch young births have been recorded from 69 females in a long-term study of Petrogale assimilis at Black Rock (19°05' S, 144°27' E) on Lyndhurst Station, 250km west of Townsville. Three sets of twins were recorded, representing 0.98% of births.