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New insights into Australia's unique platypus
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Public release date: 2-Nov-2009

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Contact: Dr Frank Grutzner

frank.grutzner@adelaide.edu.au

61-883-034-812

University of Adelaide

New insights into Australia's unique platypus

New insights into the biology of the platypus and echidna have been published, providing a collection of unique research data about the world's only monotremes.

University of Adelaide geneticist Dr Frank Grützner and his team have authored five of 28 papers which appear in two special issues of the Australian Journal of Zoology and Reproduction Fertility and Development .

The articles shed new light on the extraordinary complex platypus sex chromosome system.

"For the first time we have looked at how the ...

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