Individual female clutch identification through yolk protein electrophoresis in the communally breeding guira cuckoo (Guira guira)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2417-2424

  Cariello, Mariana O ^a   Schwabb, Hubert G ^b   Lee, Raymond W ^b   Macedo, Regina H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communal breeding; Egg ejection; Egg maternity; Guira cuckoo; Guira guira; Yolk protein electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

AVES; CUCULIDAE; GALLIFORMES; GUIRA GUIRA; MELOPSITTACUS; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS;

EGG PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; FEMALE; INDIVIDUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BREEDING; EGG PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; INDIVIDUALITY; NESTING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036847297     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2002.01622.x     Document Type: Article

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