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Genetic techniques for determining paternity in black swans

By On May 13, 2015 · Leave a Comment

This is a rather technical paper that describes the paternity testing methods we developed to enable us to work out who the true mother and sire are of cygnets born to a particular pair.

CAREW, P.J., ADCOCK, G.J. & MULDER, R.A. (2003). Microsatellite loci for paternity assessment in the black swan (Cygnus atratus : Aves). Molecular Ecology Notes 3:1-3.

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