Use of buccal swabs for sampling DNA from nestling and adult birds

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1094-1100

  Handel, Colleen M ^a   Pajot, Lisa M ^b   Talbot, Sandra L ^a   Sage, George K ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black capped chickadee; Boreal chickadee; Buccal swab; DNA; Microsatellites; Noninvasive sampling; Poecile atricapillus; Poecile hudsonica; Polymerase chain reaction; Population genetics; Sexing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BIRD; DNA; NESTLING; POPULATION GENETICS; SAMPLING;

AVES; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; POECILE;

EID: 33845938583     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2006)34[1094:UOBSFS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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