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Academic community joins forces for the Puerto Rican parrot

Submitted on 10 October 2012 - 7:08am

This article is reproduced by CienciaPR with permission from the original source.

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El Nuevo Día

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Keila López Alicea/ keila.lopez@elnuevodia.com

For the first time in Puerto Rico a scientific project is funded through crowd-funding. Researchers at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez used these funds to sequence the endangered Puerto Rican parrot's genome through.

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