Half-sider budgerigar
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half-sider-budgerigar-182-16846537
title:
Half-sider budgerigar
text:
A half-sider budgerigar is an unusual congenital condition that causes a budgerigar to display one color on one side of its body and a different color on the other. This is not a simple genetic mutation, as can be observed in other color and pattern variations in this species. It is a rare example of a tetragametic chimera, which originates when two fertilized embryos merge during a very early stage of development — between the 2-cell and the 64-cell stage. Each half has different DNA, with gene
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encyclopedia
description:
Budgerigar variant
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-sider_budgerigar
date created:
2020-12-24T17:16:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T16:50:14Z
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{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Multicolor_budgie.jpg","width":600,"height":800}
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