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How many chromosomes do budgies have?
I had wondered this for a while, and finally tried to look it up today, but I couldn't get a definitive answer... :S The first site I went to said they have 14 chromosomes, the second site said 24, the third said 26, and so did the fourth, then the fifth said 14 again! :eek: So here I am, wondering how many chromosomes budgies really have. :p
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I tried to check it out superficially, and what I came up
with made my head spin! Too many different answers, and they got into really scholarly issues really quickly. I did find this article from the Australian Budgerigar Society that sounds like they know what they're talking about, and they say 26. https://www.absbudgieclub.org.au/More-articles.html |
Budgies have 13 chromosome pairs.
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I am now wanting to know for sure - going to call the Avian vet on Monday!! :D
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I've been planning on karyotyping my budgies genes (one way to find out gender), but that's hard to do when you don't know how many chromosomes budgies have! :p "Different literary sources at different times have stated that the budgerigar has somewhere between 13 and 60 pairs of chromosomes in each cell." According to Ken Yorke, no one really seems to know how many chromosomes budgies have! :p |
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