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Nilsson's 1968 watercolor, "Being Scared," is a comic nightmare of grimaces and odd displacements: A tiny blood-red figure wearing green oven mitts and boots scales the scalp of the central character, whose fingers on one hand resemble platypus heads.

If imprinted genes were found to be located on one or two platypus autosomes this would constitute some evidence for this hypothesis.

With only one exception (platypus ε-globin, see below), the identities of all of the genes inferred by BLAST analyses were supported by phylogenetic analyses with high posterior probabilities and bootstrap support values.

C10orf27 was also found on one of these linked contigs, further strengthening the match between the platypus and human loci.

Platypus, one of a few surviving species of monotremes, has a unique evolutionary position.

This lineage consists of just one species of platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and four species of echidna.

Two major concomitant LINE/SINE amplifications were detected in opossum (in addition to a more recent LTR burst) and one in the platypus.

If the intraexonic splicing did not occur, an RGD motif would be encoded in the C-ter region of the opossum AMTN [ 12] but not in the platypus one (not shown).

Whatever the danger posed by its stinger, the platypus is one of the few animals whose very existence has posed a mortal threat to an entire human conceptual framework.

The platypus is one of the few monotremes still in existence today.

First, two primitive mammals (opossum and platypus) and one bird (chicken) are clearly distinct from other mammals.