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Sex determination and individual identification of American minks (Neovison vison) on Hokkaido, northern Japan, by fecal DNA analysis.
Zoological science - 1 Mar 2010
Shimatani Yukari, Takeshita Tsuyoshi, Tatsuzawa Shirow, Ikeda Tohru, Masuda Ryuichi
Abstract excerpt
To determine the sex and identity of individual American minks (Neovison vsion), a species Introduced into Japan, molecular genetic methods were employed on fecal samples collected from the Kushiro Wetland, eastern Hokkaido. We examined the sex chromosome-linked genes ZFX and ZFY and 11 microsatellite loci to identify individuals. From microsatellite genotypes, the probability of identity was calculated to...
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