Sex Determination in the Near Threatened Guadalupe Fur Seal: Molecular Markers and Their Potential Applications
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50542#.VECQvVfHRK1 Author(s) Simona Sanvito 1,2 , Anna Fabiani 1,3 , Filippo Galimberti 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Elephant Seal Research Group, Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands . 2 Facultad de Ciencias Marinas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, México . 3 Dipartimento di Biologia, Università Degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italia . ABSTRACT The determination of sex by simple observation is often difficult in marine mammals, even in sexually dimorphic species. Moreover, there is often the practical necessity to determine sex in samples that have been collected without handling or observing the subjects. In these cases, a mo...