A Minimally-Invasive Procedure for Sexing Young Zebra Finches

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Soderstrom, Ken; Qin, Weixi; Leggett, Matthew H.
Abstract
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) with PCR amplification from Z and W sex chromosomes (males are ZZ, females ZW). This combination results in a minimally-invasive yet highly reliable and convenient genotyping method. Originally published Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Vol. 164, No. 1, Aug 2007
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http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3116
Subject
 Songbirds; Zebra finches; Genotyping; Sex; Development 
Date
2007-08-15
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Soderstrom, Ken, & Qin, Weixi, & Leggett, Matthew H.. (August 2007). A Minimally-Invasive Procedure for Sexing Young Zebra Finches. , (. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3116

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Soderstrom, Ken, and Qin, Weixi, and Leggett, Matthew H.. "A Minimally-Invasive Procedure for Sexing Young Zebra Finches". . . (.), August 2007. May 13, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3116.
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Soderstrom, Ken and Qin, Weixi and Leggett, Matthew H., "A Minimally-Invasive Procedure for Sexing Young Zebra Finches,"  , no. (August 2007), http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3116 (accessed May 13, 2021).
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Soderstrom, Ken, Qin, Weixi, Leggett, Matthew H.. A Minimally-Invasive Procedure for Sexing Young Zebra Finches. . August 2007; () . http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3116. Accessed May 13, 2021.
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East Carolina University