Cockatiel DNA

Marion B

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A year ago

I have a student in class that would like to do some type of research on cockatiel DNA. He currently owns 4 mating pairs. I am far from a bird expert so I was reaching out to see if anyone had ideas of something he could study.
Thanks!

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bio_man

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Educator

A year ago

Depends on the course and assignment. As a fun research proposal, he/she could look at Cockatiel's digestive system, specifically the microbiomes found in their gut by analyzing their fecal matter.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5183021/

Is this inline with what's expected?

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m_brenner22

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A year ago

Hi!
Thanks for the article...very interesting. I will pass along to him. From speaking with him, I think he wanted to do more with tracking of certain physical traits in generations, but not positive.

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bio_man

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Educator

A year ago

It's an interesting topic, for sure, but I think he picked the wrong animal to find genuine scientific journal articles for. You see, there really isn't much research on these particular animals, as pointed out below.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8307168/

The only parrots with assembled genomes are those found in this table:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8307168/table/genes-12-01097-t001/?report=objectonly

Does the research have to be from scientific journals?

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