Sexing sirenians: Validation of visual and molecular sex determination in both wild dugongs (Dugong dugon) and Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris)

Aquatic Mammals

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187-192

  Lanyon, Janet M ^a   Sneath, Helen L ^a   Ovenden, Jennifer R ^b   Broderick, Damien ^b   Bonde, Robert K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dugong; Dugong dugon; Florida manatee; Molecular sex; SRY; Trichechus manatus latirostris; Visual sex; ZFX; ZFY

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SIRENIAN;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

DUGONG DUGON; MAMMALIA; SIRENIA; TRICHECHUS MANATUS; TRICHECHUS MANATUS LATIROSTRIS;

EID: 70350324601     PISSN: 01675427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1578/AM.35.2.2009.187     Document Type: Article

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