An Echidna (IMAGE)

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An Echidna

Caption

This photo is an example of the echidna speciesTachyglossus aculeatus that researchers sequenced, providing a nearly gapless genome sequence. This genome was used to investigate the evolution of the monotreme multi-sex-chromosome system for sex determination.

Credit

Allan Whittome

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