High-throughput gender identification of Accipitridae eagles with real-time PCR using TaqMan probes

Theriogenology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-90

  Chang, H W ^a   Gu, D L ^a   Su, S H ^a   Chang, C C ^h   Cheng, C A ^c   Huang, H W ^b   Yao, C T ^d,e   Chou, T C ^f   Chuang, L Y ^g   Cheng, C C ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d ENDEMIC SPECIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^h NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CHD gene; Eagles; Gender identification; Sex specific probe; TaqMan

Indexed keywords

AVIAN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DNA PROBE; EAGLE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DETERMINATION;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PROBES; EAGLES; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS);

ACCIPITER NISUS; ACCIPITRIDAE; AQUILA CHRYSAETOS; CIRCAETUS GALLICUS; CIRCUS SPILONOTUS; GYPS BENGALENSIS; GYPS INDICUS; MILVUS MIGRANS; SPILORNIS CHEELA; SPIZAETUS NIPALENSIS;

EID: 44549087889     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2008.02.011     Document Type: Article

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