Determining sex of Magellanic Penguins using molecular procedures and discriminant functions

Waterbirds

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 479-484

  Bertellotti, Marcelo ^a   Tella, José L ^b   Godoy, José A ^b   Blanco, Guillermo ^c   Forero, Manuela G ^d   Donázar, José A ^b   Ceballos, Olga ^e  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^e Grupo de Estud Biologicos Ugarra   (Spain)

Author keywords

Discriminant functions; DNA; Magellanic penguins; Sexing birds; Spheniscus magellanicus

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEABIRD; SEX DETERMINATION;

AVES; FICEDULA; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; GALLUS GALLUS; SPHENISCIDAE; SPHENISCUS; SPHENISCUS MAGELLANICUS;

EID: 0036958998     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2002)025[0479:dsompu]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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