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  • FAQ: Can pallid revert back to SL ino?

    27/07/2026 Dirk Van den Abeele

    FAQ: Is it possible that, after several generations, the offspring of a pallid hen suddenly produce only SL ino young, assuming we are certain that

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  • FAQ: Naming order in mutation combinations

    27/04/2026 Dirk Van den Abeele

    FAQ: Naming order in mutation combinations Enthusiasts often like to combine different color mutations. This raises the question: in what order should the names of

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  • FAQ: melanin, eumelanin, phaeomelanin, melanocytes, melanosomes and keratinocytes?

    20/03/2026 Dirk Van den Abeele

    Nederlandse versie onderaan FAQ: When studying your articles on feather structure, terms such as melanin, eumelanin, phaeomelanin, melanocytes, melanosomes and keratinocytes in bird feathers are

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  • FAQ: Can a DNA or blood test detect the presence of colour mutations (split factor) in the genome?

    01/03/2026 Dirk Van den Abeele

    Nederlandse versie onderaan FAQ: Can a DNA or blood test detect the presence of colour mutations in the genome? We’ve been receiving this question more

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  • FAQ: pallidino or PallidIno?

    06/12/2025 Dirk Van den Abeele

    FAQ: The international guidelines state that combinations of alleles should be written as one word and that the names of both alleles must begin with

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Mechanisms behind mosaic canaries

19/06/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General, Genetics

A recent study, published in Science, shows that carotenoid-based sexual dichromatism in mosaic canaries, a hybrid phenotype that arises in

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FAQ: what is the tangerine gene / locus in parrots?

01/06/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele FAQ, General, Genetics

FAQ: what is the tangerine gene / locus in parrots? To be honest, it does not exist. It was the

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FAQ: Are cross sections the only way to determine colour mutations?

23/05/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele FAQ, General

FAQ: Are cross sections of feathers the only way to determine colour mutations? Absolutely not. Cross sections in combination with

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Impairment of mixed melanin-based pigmentation in parrots

13/05/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General

Parrots and allies (Order Psittaciformes) have evolved an exclusive capacity to synthesize polyene pigments called psittacofulvins at feather follicles, which

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On request: article Agapornis roseicollis: DM Jade

10/05/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele Articles - Artikels, Articles UK, General

New mutation in Agapornis roseicollis: DM Jade (Article published in 2017 / update 2018) By Dirk Van den Abeele Ornitho-Genetics

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Asteriornis maastrichtensis

01/05/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General

Amateur paleontologist Mr. Maarten van Dinther discovered in 2000, near the Dutch border in Belgium a fossil from probably one

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Grey Forpus coelestis

17/02/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele General

We recently concluded our investigation into the AR grey factor at Forpus coelestis. An article about this mutant will, in

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FAQ: Combinations of alleles of the same gene

14/01/2020 Dirk Van den Abeele FAQ, General

FAQ: Combinations of alleles of the same gene are indicated by writing the mutant names one after the other, for

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Agapornis fischeri blue2

18/12/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General

The last months we received several reports from breeders who bred blue2 Agapornis fischeri which develop a yellow / pinkish

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‘Red’ Agapornis fischeri

27/11/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General, Genetics

Benjamin aka Joven of Aby Aviary from the Philippines and the South-African breeder Willie Matthews, reported success ful breeding records

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Mitogenome of Agapornis personatus, Agapornis lilianae and Agapornis nigrigenis

01/11/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General, Genetics

In March 2019, the study on the mitochondrial genome of Agapornis fischeri was published by H. Liu [1]. Three weeks

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Afscheid van een vriend

29/10/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General

Daarnet het trieste nieuws gekregen dat Harrie van der Linden ons gisteren helaas ontvallen is. Ik heb er eigenlijk even

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FAQ: Genetics behind urucum canaries – Urucum kanaries

13/09/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele Canary - Finches, FAQ, General, Genetics

Unlike wild and domestic canaries (Serinus canaria), the domestic urucum breed of canaries exhibits bright red bills and legs. To

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Mitochondrial genome of A. fischeri

24/06/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General, Genetics

Recently, Chinees scientists, described the complete mitochondrial genome of A. fischeri. Its mitochondrial genome is a circular molecule of 16,719

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Blue, blue type2, turquoise, *sapphire*, *teal*,…. and so much more ….

14/06/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele Articles - Artikels, Articles UK, General

This article has been published in April 2019, in Agapornis.Info, the BVA-International magazine. In the mean while we continued our

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Results feather research SL dominant greywing Agapornis fischeri

29/05/2019 Dirk Van den Abeele General

The first SL dominant greywing Agapornis fischeri were reported in 2009 in The Netherlands. Because of the inheritance is dominant,

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