A locally funded Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata) genome sequencing project increases avian data and advances young researcher education

GigaScience

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Oleksyk, Taras K ^a   Pombert, Jean Francois ^b   Siu, Daniel ^c   Mazo Vargas, Anyimilehidi ^a   Ramos, Brian ^a   Guiblet, Wilfried ^a   Afanador, Yashira ^a   Ruiz Rodriguez, Christina T ^a,d   Nickerson, Michael L ^d   Logue, David M ^a   Dean, Michael ^d   Figueroa, Luis ^e   Valentin, Ricardo ^f   Martinez Cruzado, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Axeq Technologies   (South Korea)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Compañía de Parques Nacionales de Puerto Rico ^*  (Puerto Rico)

^f Department of Natural and Environmental Resources ^*  (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Amazona vittata; Annotation; Assembly; Education; Genome sequence; Local funding; Puerto rican parrot

Indexed keywords

AMAZONA VITTATA; ARTICLE; AVIAN GENETICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EDUCATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FUNDING; GALLUS GALLUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SEQUENCING PROJECT; GENOME SIZE; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PARROT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84877256024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2047217X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2047-217X-1-14     Document Type: Article

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