Evidence of male-bias in capture samples of Marbled Murrelets from genetic studies in British Columbia

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 398-402

  Vanderkist, Brett A ^c   Xue, Xiao Hua ^c   Griffiths, Richard ^a   Martin, Kathy ^b   Beauchamp, Wendy ^b   Williams, Tony D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Brachyramphus marmoratus; Male bias; Marbled Murrelet

Indexed keywords

AVES; BRACHYRAMPHUS; BRACHYRAMPHUS MARMORATUS; MURRELET; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032965385     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370004     Document Type: Article

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