Xiaojing Guan, Jun Xu, en Edward J. Smith van het Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA,USA hebben het mitochondrial DNA van de grasparkiet [Melopsittacus undulatus] in kaart gebracht. Deze info kan helpen om via verder onderzoek hun relatie tot andere soorten te verduidelijken.
Xiaojing Guan, Jun Xu, and Edward J. Smith from Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA,USA have described the budgie’s mitochondrial genome sequence, a resource that can facilitate this parrot’s use as a model organism as well as for determining its phylogenetic relatedness to other parrots/Psittaciformes.
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Guan, X., Xu, J., Smith, E.J., 2014. The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus. Mitochondrial DNA 1–2. doi:10.3109/19401736.2014.898277