A Minimally-Invasive Procedure for Sexing Young Zebra Finches
Author
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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Date
2007-08-15
Citation:
APA:
Soderstrom, Ken, & Qin, Weixi, & Leggett, Matthew H.. (August 2007).
A Minimally-Invasive Procedure for Sexing Young Zebra Finches.
Journal of Neuroscience Methods,
164(1),
116-
119. Retrieved from
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3116
MLA:
Soderstrom, Ken, and Qin, Weixi, and Leggett, Matthew H..
"A Minimally-Invasive Procedure for Sexing Young Zebra Finches". Journal of Neuroscience Methods.
164:1. (116-119),
August 2007.
September 21, 2023.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3116.
Chicago:
Soderstrom, Ken and Qin, Weixi and Leggett, Matthew H.,
"A Minimally-Invasive Procedure for Sexing Young Zebra Finches," Journal of Neuroscience Methods 164, no.
1 (August 2007),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3116 (accessed
September 21, 2023).
AMA:
Soderstrom, Ken, Qin, Weixi, Leggett, Matthew H..
A Minimally-Invasive Procedure for Sexing Young Zebra Finches. Journal of Neuroscience Methods.
August 2007;
164(1):
116-119.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3116. Accessed
September 21, 2023.
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East Carolina University