Sex identification of parrots, toucans, and curassows by PCR: Perspectives for wild and captive population studies

Abstract 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2361(1998)17:53.3.CO;2-U Methods for the identification of the sex of bird species without external sexual dimorphism are specially important in field studies and for captive breeding of endangered taxa. We confirmed the accuracy of a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based method to identify the sex in three disparate avian orders that included 31 species of parrot, […]