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

• Sadie X. Novak ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sadie X. Novak, Jacob M.J. Linsky

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chemistry Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

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• Jacob M.J. Linsky ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sadie X. Novak, Jacob M.J. Linsky

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Moreton Bay Research Station, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

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• Kaitlyn J. Knapp,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

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• Susan E. Parks,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6663-627X

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• David Wiley,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Scituate, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Dana A. Cusano

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dcusano@syr.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4186-4206

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