Triploid plover female provides support for a role of the W chromosome in avian sex determination

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 787-789

  Küpper, Clemens ^a,b   Augustin, Jakob ^b,c   Edwards, Scott ^a   Székely, Tamás ^d   Kosztolányi, András ^e   Burke, Terry ^b   Janes, Daniel E ^a,f  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^e EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Birds; Microsatellites; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CHROMOSOME; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; SEX DETERMINATION;

AVES; CHARADRIUS ALEXANDRINUS;

EID: 84866717162     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0329     Document Type: Article

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