Sexing Arctic Terns in the field and laboratory

Waterbirds

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 314-320

  Devlin, Catherine M ^a   Diamond, Antony W ^a   Saunders, Gary W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic Tern; Assortative mating; Discriminant function; Genetic analysis; Sex determination; Sterna paradisaea

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SEABIRD; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; LARIDAE; PARADISAEA; STERNA; STERNA PARADISAEA;

EID: 8744251608     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2004)027[0314:SATITF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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