Subtle sexual dimorphism in the Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail {spartonoica maluroides; furnariidae) uncovered through molecular sex determination

Ornitologia Neotropical

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 347-355

  Cardoni, Daniel Augusto ^a,b   Maldonado, Jesus Eduardo ^c   Isacch, Juan Pablo ^a,b   Greenberg, Russell ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ^*  (Argentina)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bay capped Wren Spinetail; Cryptic sexual dimorphism; DNA analysis; Grassland bird; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349656844     PISSN: 10754377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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