Platypus unlocks evolution's secrets.(Genome Sequencing)

USA Today (Magazine) | June 1, 2009 | Copyright

By any account, the platypus is an odd creature. It has a broad, rubbery bill that brings to mind a duck, but it swims mere like a beaver; yet, it lays eggs and can inject poisonous venom like a reptile. No wonder it is considered an elaborate hoax by scientists who examined the first specimen pelt shipped to England from the colony of New South Wales in 1799.

A consortium of scientists, including Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.) Laboratory's Gregory J. Harmon, published results of an international effort to sequence the platypus genome. It reveals evolutionary secrets ...

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