DNA “fingerprints” and paternity ascertainment in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Abstract 10.1002/zoo.1430090203.abs Highly variable regions of DNA are found in a wide diversity of organisms and are typically composed of alleles consisting of a variable number of tandem repeats (VNTRs) of a short core sequence. DNA fingerprinting probes are VNTR probes that simultaneously detect a large number of similar VNTRs in the target DNA. The […]