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PLoS ONE, 2013 Correction: Identification and Functional Characterization of a Novel Monotreme- Specific Antibacterial Protein Expressed during ...
Swathi Bisana +6 more
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When the past informs our future
eLife, 2021 Comparing the genes expressed at the maternal-fetal interface in different species helps to pinpoint those that contribute to a healthy pregnancy by regulating the activity of the immune system.
Abigail LaBella
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Locus-Specific Convergent Evolution and Interchromosomal Rearrangements Contribute to the Diversification of Amniote Type I Interferons. [PDF]
Evol ApplABSTRACT Type I interferons (IFNs) play essential roles in antiviral immune responses. The extensive diversification of type I IFNs into various subtypes and duplicated gene copies has posed significant challenges for evolutionary reconstruction. To address this, we developed the type I IFN sequence composition and structure (IFN‐SCOPE) model and gene ...
Zhang L +10 more
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Gut microbiota in the short‐beaked echidna (Tachyglossus Aculeatus) shows stability across gestation
MicrobiologyOpen, 2023 Indigenous gut microbial communities (microbiota) play critical roles in health and may be especially important for the mother and fetus during pregnancy.
Isini Buthgamuwa +5 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 We reviewed the many discoveries in cell biology, made since the 17th century, which have been based on red blood cells (RBCs). The advances in molecular and structural biology in the past 40 years have enabled the discovery with these cells, most ...
Gheorghe Benga, Gheorghe Benga, Guy Cox
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Ecosystem engineering by digging mammals: effects on soil fertility and condition in Tasmanian temperate woodland [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Many small- and medium-sized mammals dig for their food. This activity potentially affects soil condition and fertility. Digging is well developed especially in Australian mammals, many of which have recently become rare or extinct.
G. T. O. Davies +4 more
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eLife, 2021 The developmental origins and evolutionary histories of cell types, tissues, and organs contribute to the ways in which their dysfunction produces disease.
Mirna Marinić +3 more
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Sensory receptors in monotremes [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 1998 This is a summary of the current knowledge of sensory receptors in skin of the bill of the platypus,Ornithorhynchus anatinus, and the snout of the echidna,Tachyglossus aculeatus. Brief mention is also made of the third living member of the monotremes, the long–nosed echidna,Zaglossus bruijnii.
U, Proske, J E, Gregory, A, Iggo
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Pectoral girdle and forelimb musculoskeletal function in the echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus): insights into mammalian locomotor evolution [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Although evolutionary transformation of the pectoral girdle and forelimb appears to have had a profound impact on mammalian locomotor and ecological diversity, both the sequence of anatomical changes and the functional implications remain unclear ...
Sophie Regnault, Stephanie E. Pierce
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Electroreception in monotremes [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 1999 ABSTRACT I will briefly review the history of the bill sense of the platypus, a sophisticated combination of electroreception and mechanoreception that coordinates information about aquatic prey provided from the bill skin mechanoreceptors and electroreceptors, and provide an evolutionary account of electroreception in the three extant ...
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