TY - JOUR
TI - Advances in Sex Determination in Bats and its Utility in Wind-Wildlife Studies
AU - Korstian, J
AU - Hale, A
AU - Bennett, V
AU - Williams, D
T2 - Molecular Ecology Resources
AB - We developed a simple and reliable genetic method to determine sex in bats from the Vespertilionidae and Molossidae families. Polymerase chain reaction was used to amplify a portion of the introns within the zinc-finger-X (Zfx) and zinc-finger-Y (Zfy) genes. We designed primers to produce size variation between the Zfx and Zfy products that could be visualized using gel electrophoresis. Using an example from our wind-wildlife research, we show how sex data generated using this method are superior to sex data based on external morphology. Our method allows for the generation of sex data across a wide range of bats that can be used to address key questions in wildlife forensics, behavioural ecology, conservation and evolutionary biology.
DA - 2013/05//
PY - 2013
VL - 13
IS - 5
SP - 776
EP - 780
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1755-0998.12118/abstract
DO - 10.1111/1755-0998.12118
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Land-Based Wind
KW - Bats
ER -