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Sex identification assay useful in great apes is not diagnostic in a range of other primate species
Author(s) -
Ensminger Amanda L.,
Hoffman Susan M.G.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
american journal of primatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1098-2345
pISSN - 0275-2565
DOI - 10.1002/ajp.1069
Subject(s) - primate , identification (biology) , range (aeronautics) , biology , zoology , evolutionary biology , computational biology , ecology , composite material , materials science
The ability to identify the sex of individuals from noninvasive samples can be a powerful tool for field studies. Amelogenin, a nuclear gene proximate to the pseudoautosomal region of mammalian sex chromosomes, has a 6 base‐pair (bp) size difference between human X and Y chromosomes that can be PCR‐amplified and sized to distinguish male from female DNA. We examined whether this test can be used to identify sex from different DNA sources across a number of nonhuman primate taxa. Using human amelogenin primers, we were able to amplify diagnostic products from the four great ape species tested, but products from five other primate species were not sexually dimorphic. Am. J. Primatol. 56:129–134, 2002. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.