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SUBMITTER: Lima NCB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6136379 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul/Sept.
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lima Nicholas Costa Barroso NCB Soares André Elias Rodrigues AER Almeida Luiz Gonzaga de Paula LGP Costa Igor Rodrigues da IRD Sato Fernanda Midori FM Schneider Patricia P Aleixo Alexandre A Schneider Maria Paula MP Santos Fabrício R FR Mello Claudio V CV Miyaki Cristina C Vasconcelos Ana Tereza R ATR Prosdocimi Francisco F
Genetics and molecular biology 20180701 3
Amazon parrots are long-lived birds with highly developed cognitive skills, including vocal learning. Several parrot mitogenomes have been sequenced, but important aspects of their organization and evolution are not fully understood or have limited experimental support. The main aim of the present study was to describe the mitogenome of the blue-fronted Amazon, Amazona aestiva, and compare it to other mitogenomes from the genus Amazona and the order Psittaciformes. We observed that mitogenomes a ...[more]