A minimally invasive marine mammal sex determination method using epidermal tissue recovered from suction-cup tags.

For many baleen whales, minimal sexual dimorphism means that sex cannot necessarily be reliably determined through observation alone. Suction cup tags deployed for behavioral studies of free-ranging whales sometimes retain exfoliated epidermal tissue from the tagged animal that can potentially be us...

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Main Authors: Sadie X Novak, Jacob M J Linsky, Kaitlyn J Knapp, Susan E Parks, David Wiley, Dana A Cusano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323658
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