Sex determination in booted eagles (Hieraaetus pennatus) using molecular procedures and discrimiant function analysis
We studied a breeding population of Booted Eagles (Hieraaetusp ennatus)i n Doñana National Park (southwestern Spain) to develop a method of determining the sex of an individual based on the use of iscriminant functions. Because there are size differences between age classes and sexes of eagles, we d...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2001 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/62541 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/62541 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Booted eagle Hieraaetus pennatus Sex determination Morphometrics |
| Sumario: | We studied a breeding population of Booted Eagles (Hieraaetusp ennatus)i n Doñana National Park (southwestern Spain) to develop a method of determining the sex of an individual based on the use of iscriminant functions. Because there are size differences between age classes and sexes of eagles, we developed two different discriminant functions for each age group. Our discriminant function method approached 100% accuracy in correctly aging individuals using forearm length and body massa s predictor variables.S ex of young eaglesw as also determined with 98.8% accuracyu sing forearm, tail, bill, and tarsus lengths |
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