Eggs yield nuclear DNA from egg-laying female cowbirds, their embryos and offspring

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 385-390

  Strausberger, B M ^a   Ashley, M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Cowbird; DNA extraction; Genetic analysis; Noninvasive sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010338387     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012526315617     Document Type: Article

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