Neither fish nor fowl: Platypus genome decoded - AFP

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Neither fish nor fowl: Platypus genome decoded
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PARIS (AFP) - Arguably the oddest beast in Nature's menagerie, the platypus looks as it if were assembled from spare parts left over after the animal kingdom was otherwise complete.
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Neither fish nor fowl: Platypus genome decoded (AFP)

Posted by Admin on May 8, 2008 at 6:05 am · Under SCIENCE

The world's first platypus twin puggles born in captivity are shown at Taronga Zoo in Sydney in 2003. The task of laying bare the platypus genome of 2.2 billion base pairs spread across 18,500 genes has taken several years, but will do far more than satisfy the curiosity of just biologists, say the researchers.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Arguably the oddest beast in Nature’s menagerie, the platypus looks as it if were assembled from spare parts left over after the animal kingdom was otherwise complete.


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