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MACAW
Multiple Alignment Construction & Analysis Workbench. A program for locating, analysing, and editing blocks of localised sequence similarity among multiple sequences, linking them in a composite multiple alignment
macaw
one of the tropical parrots of the family Psittacidae. Macaws are very colorful, have long tails and bare cheek patches. They are big birds (up to 3 feet long) and are members of the Ara genus, e.g. Ara macao, the scarlet macaw.
macaw wasting disease
a progressive weight loss associated with atony of the crop and proventriculus and atrophy of the gizzard, a nonsuppurative encephalitis and visceral ganglioneuritis. Called also proventricular dilatation syndrome and infiltrative splanchnic neuropathy.
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They hope that understanding how macaws live will help efforts to save the birds.
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Scarlet macaws originate from South America and are part of the parrot family, which boasts 328 species, ranging in size from the budgerigar to the large macaw.
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Although not mentioned in the Gardner show, London's Daily Telegraph reported in 2005 that al-Thani, who owns the majority of the surviving macaws, was also the most extravagant art buyer in the world.
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