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Predicting the virulence of future emerging zoonotic viruses.

PLoS Biology, 2023
Would you rather kiss a platypus, a hedgehog, or a llama? According to a new study in this issue of PLOS Biology, the virulence of a zoonotic virus in humans depends on its reservoir host.
Samuel Alizon
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The use of citizen scientists to confirm the presence of platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in north-west Sydney

, 2021
The platypus is an elusive species. Traditionally they have been hunted for their fur and now face several threats including drought, pollution and like many of our Australian icons, habitat loss from urbanisation. Sydney is undergoing rapid urbanisation.
Ryan, Michelle (R12227), Morrison, Katherine G. (R19626)   +1 more
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Ambrosia Beetles, Platypus spp. (Insecta: Coleoptera: Platypodidae)

EDIS, 2004
The family Platypodidae includes approximately 1,000 species, most of which are found in the tropics (Schedl 1972). Seven species of platypodids, all in the genus Platypus, are found in the United States, four of which occur in Florida.
T. H. Atkinson
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Novel venom gene discovery in the platypus [PDF]

, 2010
Background: To date, few peptides in the complex mixture of platypus venom have been identified and sequenced, in part due to the limited amounts of platypus venom available to study.
Wilson, Richard K, Mardis, Elaine R., Hsu, Arthur L., Wesley C Warren, Elaine R Mardis, Hsu, Artur, Whittington, Camilla M, Warren, Wesley, Devin P Locke, Abubucker, S, Makedonka Mitreva, Kuchel, PW, Sahar Abubucker, Wilson, Richard K., Papenfuss, Antony T., Abubucker, Sahar, Mardis, Elaine, Whittington, Camilla M., Whittington, CM, Warren, Wesley C, Kuchei, Philip W., Papenfuss, AT, Warren, WC, Warren, Wesley C., Anthony T Papenfuss, Wilson, RK, Mitreva, Makedonka, Belov, Katherine, Wong, Emily S. W., Philip W Kuchel, Hsu, Arthur L, Katherine Belov, Belov, K, Papenfuss, Anthony T., Arthur L Hsu, Hsu, AL, Locke, DP, Camilla M Whittington, Locke, Devin P., Mardis, Elaine R, Locke, Devin P, Kuchel, Philip W, Mardis, ER, Papenfuss, Anthony T, Wong, ESW, Emily SW Wong, Richard K Wilson, Kuchel, Philip W., Wong, Emily SW, Mitreva, M   +49 more
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Pest categorisation of Platypus apicalis

EFSA Journal, 2022
The EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of Platypus apicalis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae), an ambrosia beetle, also known as a pinhole borer, for the EU territory. P.
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Claude Bragard, Paula Baptista, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Francesco Di Serio, Paolo Gonthier, Josep Anton Jaques Miret, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Christer Sven Magnusson, Panagiotis Milonas, Juan A Navas‐Cortes, Stephen Parnell, Roel Potting, Philippe Lucien Reignault, Emilio Stefani, Hans‐Hermann Thulke, Wopke Van der Werf, Antonio Vicent Civera, Jonathan Yuen, Lucia Zappalà, Jean‐Claude Grégoire, Chris Malumphy, Virag Kertesz, Andrea Maiorano, Alan MacLeod   +24 more
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Ocorrência de besouros de ambrósia (coleoptera: platypodidae) em área urbana de Campinas, SP

Floresta e Ambiente, 2023
Resumo Platipodídeos são brocadores xilomicetofagos que ocorrem em madeira viva ou morta. Neste estudo foi analisado o padrão de infestação de árvores, utilizadas na arborização das ruas de um bairro na Cidade de Campinas-SP, por platipodídeos.
Jarbas M. Queiroz, Maria A. Garcia
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A silent demise: Historical insights into population changes of the iconic platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

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, Gilad Bino, Richard T. Kingsford   +2 more
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Diagnosis in child and adolescent psychopathology: A useful tool when applied with care or a misunderstood, politicised concept?

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Diagnoses play vital roles in child and adolescent mental health services and research. They facilitate accurate communication, selection of appropriate interventions and estimation of prognosis. Receipt of a diagnosis can generate relief and improved understanding for many families.
Anita Thapar, Daniel S. Pine
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Making the most of RNA-seq: Pre-processing sequencing data with Opossum for reliable SNP variant detection [version 1; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2017
Identifying variants from RNA-seq (transcriptome sequencing) data is a cost-effective and versatile alternative to whole-genome sequencing. However, current variant callers do not generally behave well with RNA-seq data due to reads encompassing intronic
Laura Oikkonen, Stefano Lise
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Contemporary Reflections on Substantial Kind Change in Avicenna

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary metaphysics, and especially neo‐Aristotelian metaphysics, tackles many of the same problems as Avicenna did. One of these problems is the possibility of substantial kind change. For instance, is it possible for an animal to change its species?
Tuomas E. Tahko
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