Sexing Greater Flamingo chicks from feather bulb DNA

Waterbirds

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 450-453

  Balkiz, Özge ^a,b,e   Dano, Stéphanie ^c   Barbaraud, Christophe ^c   Tekin, Serpil ^d   Özesmi, Uygar ^d   Dündar, Munis ^d   Béchet, Arnaud ^a  

^a STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

^d ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e Environmental Engineering Department ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

CHD; CHD W; CHD Z; Feather bulb; PCR based protocol; Phoenicopterus roseus; Polymerase chain reaction; Sex determination; Sexing

Indexed keywords

DNA; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; WADER;

PHOENICOPTERUS;

EID: 35949002124     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2007)030[0450:SGFCFF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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