Sex determination in the wild: a field application of loop-mediated isothermal amplification successfully determines sex across three raptor species

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 153-160

  Centeno Cuadros, A ^a,b,d   Abbasi, I ^c   Nathan, R ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

CHD W; CHD Z; Gyps fulvus; loop mediated isothermal amplification; Milvus migrans; Neophron percnopterus

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FALCONIFORMES; GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PROCEDURES; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FALCONIFORMES; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84978034144     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12540     Document Type: Article

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