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kittymowmow on May 8th, 2008
The duck-billed platypus: part bird, part reptile, part mammal — and the genome to prove it.
An international consortium of scientists, led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has decoded the genome of the platypus, showing that the animal’s peculiar mix of features is reflected in its DNA. An analysis of the genome, [...]
