Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Platypus: Weird Down to the Genes

It has hair but it also lays eggs! It nurses its young but has webbed feet and a bill! It has poisonous venom! And look at that punim!
The gee-whizness of the platupus entered the genetic era today, with the publication in Nature of the complete genome of Glennie, a female platypus from New South Wales, [...]

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