Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution
Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution is a scholarly work by Webb Miller, Ewan Birney, Katherine Belov, Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, Manolis Kellis, Carlos López Otín, Lucinda Fulton, Paul Flicek, Makedonka Mitreva, Elaine Mardis, Tina Graves, Evan E. Eichler, Doron Lancet, Tsviya Olender, Chris Ponting, Caleb Webber, Rosalind Attenborough, Matthew Wakefield, Julie A. Sharp, Andreas Heger, Laura Clarke, Alexander Stark, Janine Deakin, Andrew J. Pask, Ross Hardison, Xose S. Puente, Anthony T. Papenfuss, Neil Gemmell, Marilyn Renfree, Camilla Whittington, Shiaw-Pyng Yang, Richard Reinhardt, Pat Minx, Kim Delehaunty, Mark Batzer, Gregory Hannon, Elizabeth Murchison, Emmanuel Buschiazzo, Angelika Merkel, Jenny Graves, Wesley C Warren, James Taylor, Gavin A Huttley, Brett Nixon, Iris M Vargas JentzschIris Miriam Vargas Jentzsch, Richard K. Wilson, Colin Kremitzki, Frank Grutzner, Asif T. Chinwalla, Devin P. Locke, Pat Miethke, Paul D. Waters, Frédéric Veyrunes, Gonzalo Ordonez, Amber E Alsop, Jerilyn A Walker, Miriam K Konkel, Jürgen Schmitz, Anja Zemann, Gennady Churakov, Jan Ole Kriegs, Juergen Brosius, Ravi Sachidanandam, Enkhjargal Tsend-Ayush, Jean-Louis Dacheux, Hitoshi Niwa, Yoko Sekita, Xiaoqiu Huang, Pouya Kheradpour, Joanne O. Nelson, Kym Hallsworth-Pepin, Chris Markovic, Yucheng Feng, Jarret Glasscock, Todd Wylie, Patricia Wohldmann, Prathapan Thiru, Craig S. Pohl, Shunfeng Hou, Mikhail Nefedov, Ladeana Hillier, and Arian F. A. Smit, published in 2008 in ''Nature''. The main subjects of the publication include marsupial, platypus, biology, gene, genome, monotreme, zoology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and decline in amphibian populations. The authors present a draft genome sequence of the platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus.