A chromosome-level genome assembly of East Asia endemic minnow Zacco platypus [PDF]
Scientific DataZacco platypus is an endemic colorful freshwater minnow that is intensively distributed in East Asia. In this study, two adult female individuals collected from Haihe River basin were used for karyotypic study and genome sequencing, respectively.
Xiaojun Xu +5 more
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Applying a modified streamlined disease risk analysis framework to a platypus conservation translocation, with special consideration for the conservation of ecto- and endoparasites [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and WildlifePlatypuses are the world's most evolutionarily distinct mammal and have several host-specific ecto- and endoparasites. With platypus populations declining, consideration should also be given to preserving these high conservation priority parasites ...
Jessica Whinfield +3 more
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Fragmentation by major dams and implications for the future viability of platypus populations
Communications Biology, 2022 Major dams are found to disrupt platypus gene flow and dispersal, with higher genetic differentiation found across dams than along similar stretches of undammed rivers, indicating that they act as significant barriers to platypus movement.
Jose L. Mijangos +10 more
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Long-term movements and activity patterns of platypus on regulated rivers
Scientific Reports, 2021 The platypus is a semi-aquatic mammal, endemic to freshwater habitats of eastern Australia. There are gaps in the understanding of platypus movement behaviour within river systems, including spatial and temporal organization of individuals.
Tahneal Hawke +5 more
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Environmental DNAFreshwater ecosystems, home to a remarkable diversity of species, are facing severe threats from human activities such as climate change, habitat degradation, over‐extraction of water for irrigation, and pollution.
Meysam Khodaparast +3 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019 Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) are evolutionarily distinct monotremes, endemic to creeks and rivers of eastern Australia. Given recent evidence of a contracting distribution and local extinctions, the species was listed as ‘Near-Threatened’ in 2016.
Tahneal Hawke +2 more
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Characterization of the Mel1c melatoninergic receptor in platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Melatonin is a neurohormone produced in both animals and plants. It binds at least three G-protein-coupled receptors: MT1 and MT2, and Mel1cGPR. Mammalian GPR50 evolved from the reptilian/avian Mel1c and lost its capacity to bind melatonin in all the ...
Célia Gautier +8 more
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The genome sequence of the oak pinhole borer, Platypus cylindrus (Fabricius, 1792) [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] [PDF]
Wellcome Open ResearchWe present a genome assembly from an individual male Platypus cylindrus (the oak pinhole borer; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Curculionidae). The genome sequence is 147.5 megabases in span.
Mark G. Telfer +6 more
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Platypus: Quick, Cheap, and Powerful Refinement of LLMs [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2023 We present $\textbf{Platypus}$, a family of fine-tuned and merged Large Language Models (LLMs) that achieves the strongest performance and currently stands at first place in HuggingFace's Open LLM Leaderboard as of the release date of this work.
Ariel N. Lee +2 more
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The Platypus of the Quantum Channel Zoo [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2022 Understanding quantum channels and the strange behavior of their capacities is a key objective of quantum information theory. Here we study a remarkably simple, low-dimensional, single-parameter family of quantum channels with exotic quantum information ...
Felix Leditzky +4 more
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