Conservation management strategies for many highly threatened species include
conservation breeding to prevent extinction and enhance recovery. Pairing decisions for …

Discriminant function analysis (DFA) based on morphological measurements is a quick,
inexpensive, and efficient method for sex determination in field studies on cryptically …

Incidental bycatch of seabirds in commercial fishing activities is known to cause declines in
seabird populations. However, the full impacts on the ecology of seabirds, including effects …

We present two new avian molecular sexing techniques for nonpasserine and passerine
birds (Neognathae), which are more suitable for use with museum specimens than earlier …

Physical barriers to gene flow were once viewed as prerequisites for adaptive evolutionary
divergence. However, a growing body of theoretical and empirical work suggests that …

In species or developmental stages where the sex of an individual cannot be reliably
identified through external morphology, molecular markers can provide a critical tool to study …

We have developed a new marker (Z43B) that can be successfully used to identify the sex of
most birds (69%), including species difficult or impossible to sex with other markers. We …

PCR‐based methods are the most common technique for sex determination of birds.
Although these methods are fast, easy and accurate, they still require special facilities that …

Knowing the correct sex of individuals is essential both for research in evolutionary ecology
and for practical conservation. Recent molecular advances have produced cheap, quick and …

Molecular sexing in wild and domestic animals has becoming an important issue in several
fields including reproduction. X and Y chromosome‐specific sequence differences of the …