A reliable, non-invasive method for sex determination in the endangered San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica) and other canids

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 715-718

  Ortega, Jorge ^a   Franco, María Del Rosario ^b   Adams, Brice A ^c   Ralls, Katherine ^d   Maldonado, Jesús E ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Canids; Non invasive sampling; Sex identification; Vulpes macrotis; ZFX ZFY

Indexed keywords

CANID; ENDANGERED SPECIES; METHODOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION;

CANIDAE; MACROTIS; VULPES; VULPES MACROTIS; VULPES MACROTIS MUTICA;

EID: 11944262690     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-003-1862-5     Document Type: Article

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