Population Genetics of Antarctic Seals

I developed and tested a protocol for determining the sex of individual pinnipeds using the sex-chromosome specific genes ZFX and ZFY. I screened a total of 368 seals (168 crabeater, Lobodon carcinophagus; 159 Weddell, Leptonychotes weddellii; and 41 Ross, Ommatophoca rossii) of known or unknown sex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Curtis, Caitlin
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2009
Subjects:
ZFX
ZFY
Online Access:https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1918
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2917&context=etd