Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (8): 3601-3609.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2025.08.004

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Research Progress on Pigeon Sex Identification

YU Shulong1,2(), MAO Nannan1, WANG Yunlong1, ZHANG Yiran1, WANG Yuanyuan1, ZHOU Rongyan1,*(), ZANG Sumin1, XIE Hui3   

  1. 1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071001, China
    2. Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China
    3. Fuping Selenium Pigeon Industry Limited Company, Fuping 073200, China
  • Received:2025-01-06 Online:2025-08-23 Published:2025-08-28
  • Contact: ZHOU Rongyan E-mail:yushulong922@163.com;rongyanzhou@126.com

Abstract:

Pigeons have a long history of breeding, as monomorphic birds, their sex identification has always been an important issue in breeding and scientific research. In recent years, pigeon meat has become an important source of meat for people, leading to a rapid expansion of the pigeon breeding industry and scale, making sex identification as a major issue constraining the development of the pigeon breeding industry. This paper organizes and summarizes the sex determination mechanism, genetic basis of sex, and the current status of sex identification methods in pigeons, and discusses the main issues in pigeon sex identification. It clarifies the future research direction of pigeon sex identification in conjunction with current research progress, providing a reference for the sex identification of pigeons and birds.

Key words: pigeon, sex identification, genetic basis of sex, molecular biology techniques, auto-sexing

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