Sexing sooty terns on Ascension Island from morphometric measurements

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 274, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-8

  Reynolds, S J ^a   Martin, G R ^a   Wallace, L L ^a   Wearn, C P ^b   Hughes, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Lympstone   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ascension Island; Morphometric; Onychoprion fuscata; PCR; Seabird colony; Sexing

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BREEDING POPULATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ASCENSION ISLAND; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

AVES; STERNA FUSCATA;

EID: 37249025760     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00350.x     Document Type: Article

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