A minimally invasive procedure for sexing young zebra finches

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 116-119

  Soderstrom, Ken ^a   Qin, Weixi ^a   Leggett, Matthew H ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Genotyping; Sex; Song bird; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; FINCH; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; DNA; FEMALE; FINCHES; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS);

EID: 34250663509     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.04.007     Document Type: Article

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