Zebra Finch (IMAGE)

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Zebra Finch

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The zebra finch, which gets its name from the black-and-white stripes on the male finch’s throat, is the first songbird to have its genome decoded. The project was led by scientists at Washington University's Genome Center.

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L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois news bureau

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For news related to the analysis of the zebra finch genome, published in <i>Nature</i> April 1, 2010.

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