Sexing errors among museum skins of a sexually monomorphic bird, the Moorhen Gallinula chloropus

Ibis

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 695-698

  Lee, Patricia L M ^a   Griffiths, Richard ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ERROR ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION;

AVES; GALLINULA CHLOROPUS;

EID: 0142248245     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1474-919X.2003.00201.x     Document Type: Article

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