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    Monotreme glucagon-like peptide-1 in venom and gut: one gene – two very different functions

    The importance of Glucagon like peptide 1 (GLP-1) for metabolic control and insulin release sparked the evolution of genes mimicking GLP-1 action in venomous species (e.g. Exendin-4 in Heloderma suspectum (gila m...

    Enkhjargal Tsend-Ayush, Chuan He, Mark A. Myers, Sof Andrikopoulos in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Erratum: Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution

    Nature 453, 175–183 (2008) In this Article, Mikhail Nefedov and Pieter J. de Jong were omitted from the author list.

    Wesley C. Warren, LaDeana W. Hillier, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Ewan Birney in Nature (2008)

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    In the platypus a meiotic chain of ten sex chromosomes shares genes with the bird Z and mammal X chromosomes

    Two centuries after the duck-billed platypus was discovered, monotreme chromosome systems remain deeply puzzling. Karyotypes of males1, or of both sexes2,3,4, were claimed to contain several unpaired chromosomes ...

    Frank Grützner, Willem Rens, Enkhjargal Tsend-Ayush, Nisrine El-Mogharbel in Nature (2004)