Biological sex identification in the endangered dusky gopher frog (Lithobates sevosa): a comparison of body size measurements, secondary sex characteristics, ultrasound imaging, and urinary hormone analysis methods

BACKGROUND: Accurate sex identification techniques are important for wildlife demographic studies and for genetic management of captive breeding colonies. Various non-invasive methods for identification of biological sex in the weakly dimorphic endangered dusky gopher frog (DGF; Lithobates sevosa) w...

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Autores principales: Graham, Katherine M., Kouba, Andrew J., Langhorne, Cecilia J., Marcec, Ruth M., Willard, Scott T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4969659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27484119
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12958-016-0174-9

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