Local funding supports open access sequencing of the Puerto Rican parrot genome
Friday, September 28, 2012 - 16:50
in Biology & Nature
The critically endangered Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata) is the only surviving parrot species native to the United States. A genomic sequencing project, funded by community donations, has just been completed, the first sequence of A. vittata, the first of the large Neotropical Amazona birds to be studied at the genomic level.