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First Documentation of Exophiala spp. Isolation in Psittaciformes
Animals, 2022 Several fungi species are reported to act as opportunistic agents of infection in avian species. After the isolation of Exophiala spp., a dematiaceous fungal pathogen associated with a mucosal lesion in a military macaw (Ara militar), samples were ...
Gonçalo N. Marques +7 more
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From the cage to the wild: introductions of Psittaciformes to Puerto Rico [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Introduced psittacine birds can become highly invasive. In this study, we assessed invasions of Psittaciformes in Puerto Rico. We reviewed the literature, public databases, citizen science records, and performed in situ population surveys across the ...
Wilfredo Falcón, Raymond L. Tremblay
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Comparative mitogenomic analyses of Amazona parrots and Psittaciformes [PDF]
Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2018 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 ...
Nicholas Costa Barroso Lima +12 more
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Animals, 2022 Xanthogranulomatosis is a common dermatological disease in birds. This form of inflammation, possibly associated with lipometabolic disorders, can also be seen in visceral organs, which as yet has only rarely been described in avian medicine. In general,
Cornelia Konicek +4 more
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Parrot Free-Flight as a Conservation Tool
Diversity, 2021 The release of captive-raised parrots to create or supplement wild populations has been critiqued due to variable survival rates and unreliable flocking behavior.
Constance Woodman +2 more
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Lipidose hepática em papagaio-verdadeiro (Amazona aestiva) adultos: Revisão
Pubvet, 2022 O presente trabalho traz uma revisão de literatura relacionada aos principais aspectos da lipidose hepática em aves adultas da espécie Amazona aestiva, conhecida como papagaio-verdadeiro ou papagaio-de-fronte-azul, cada vez mais popular como animal de ...
Vitória Naomi Yabiku Toyama +3 more
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Frequency dispersion reveals chromophore diversity and colour-tuning mechanism in parrot feathers [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Variation in animal coloration is often viewed as the result of chemically distinct pigments conferring different hues. The role of molecular environment on hue tends to be overlooked as analyses are mostly performed on free pigments extracted from the ...
Jonathan E. Barnsley +3 more
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Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in Psittaciformes [PDF]
Avian Pathology, 1999 A total of 103 Escherichia coli isolates from psittaciform birds were examined for the presence of genes coding for shigatoxin 1 (Stx1), shigatoxin 2 (Stx2) and for intimin (eae), using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Sixty-eight E. coli strains were isolated from necropsy cases and faecal samples, the other 35 were from 205 cloacal swabs from ...
C, Schremmer +6 more
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, 2015 Published as part of Ksepka, DT & Clarke, JA, 2015, Phylogenetically vetted and stratigraphically constrained fossil calibrations within Aves, pp. 1-25 in Palaeontologia Electronica (Miami, Fla.) (Miami, Fla.) 18 on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.26879/373, http://zenodo.org/record ...
J. Jill Heatley, Juan Cornejo
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2017 Medium-sized neotropical parrots from Pionus genus are represented by at least eight species. However, their taxonomy should be revised because some external morphological characters together with genetic data recognize 19 taxa.
Adam Dawid Urantówka +2 more
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