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Molecular sexing of the communally breeding pukeko: an important ecological tool.
Molecular ecology - 1 Apr 1996
Millar C D, Lambert D M, Anderson S, Halverson J L
Abstract excerpt
A central biological parameter in the study of any animal population is the accurate assignment of sex. Indeed any ecological study of a population requires information on sex composition in relation to such biological factors as behaviour, movement, mortality and birth rate. However, our ability to assign the sex of adults of many avian species is poor and the sexing of young is universally difficult. We report...
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