

Some initially considered it to be a true mammal despite its duck-bill and webbed feet. The platypus ( Ornithorhynchus anatinus) has always elicited excitement and controversy in the zoological world 1. Jones, 28 Brett Nixon, 28 Jean-Louis Dacheux, 29 Hitoshi Niwa, 30 Yoko Sekita, 30 Xiaoqiu Huang, 31 Alexander Stark, 32 Pouya Kheradpour, 32 Manolis Kellis, 32 Paul Flicek, 3 Yuan Chen, 3 Caleb Webber, 4 Ross Hardison, 7 Joanne Nelson, 1 Kym Hallsworth-Pepin, 1 Kim Delehaunty, 1 Chris Markovic, 1 Pat Minx, 1 Yucheng Feng, 1 Colin Kremitzki, 1 Makedonka Mitreva, 1 Jarret Glasscock, 1 Todd Wylie, 1 Patricia Wohldmann, 1 Prathapan Thiru, 1 Michael N. Ray, 24 Michael Kube, 25 Richard Reinhardt, 25 Thomas H. Hannon, 21 Enkhjargal Tsend-Ayush, 5 Daniel McMillan, 2 Rosalind Attenborough, 2 Willem Rens, 9 Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, 9 Christophe M. Murchison, 21 Ravi Sachidanandam, 21 Carly Smith, 21 Gregory J.

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