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For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife—from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to mammals gone extinct—are available for all to see, via their bones and ...

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the immune system and finally the entire animal body. The candidate gene approach relies on comparative analysis of the expression of transcription factors and differentiation genes known to be ...