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A minimally invasive procedure for sexing young zebra finches.
Journal of neuroscience methods - 15 Aug 2007
Soderstrom Ken, Qin Weixi, Leggett Matthew H
Abstract excerpt
Zebra finches have been widely used to study neurobiology underlying vocal development. Because only male zebra finches learn song, efficient developmental use of these animals requires early determination of sex at ages that precede maturation of secondary sex characteristics. We have developed a sex determination method that combines a forensics method of genomic DNA isolation (from very small blood samples)...
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