Sexing pinnipeds with ZFX and ZFY loci

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 280-285

  Curtis, Caitlin ^a   Stewart, Brent S ^b   Karl, Stephen A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b HUBBS SEAWORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LABORATORY; LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII; LOBODON CARCINOPHAGA; MALE; MIROUNGA ANGUSTIROSTRIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMMATOPHOCA ROSSII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SKIN BIOPSY; ZALOPHUS CALIFORNIANUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; MALE; PINNIPEDIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII; LOBODON CARCINOPHAGA; MIROUNGA ANGUSTIROSTRIS; OMMATOPHOCA ROSSII; PINNIPEDIA; ZALOPHUS; ZALOPHUS CALIFORNIANUS;

EID: 34548306695     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esm023     Document Type: Article

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