Origin of Ciguateric Fish: Quantitative Modelling of the Flow of Ciguatoxin through a Marine Food Chain by Michael J. Holmes, Richard J. Lewis

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Influencia de la calidad de sitio en el ataque de Platypus mutatus Chapuis (Coleoptera, Platypodidae) a una plantación de sauces (Salix babylonica x Salix alba cv 131/27) by Edgardo A. Casaubon, Gerardo R. Cueto, Karina Hodara, Adrián C. Gonzalez

“…El porcentaje de sauces atacados por Platypus mutatus fue significativamente mayor en el más productivo (41.8% vs. 22.82%). …”
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Oak Decline Syndrome in Korean Forests: History, Biology, and Prospects for Korean Oak Wilt by Won Il Choi, Dong-Hyeon Lee, Jong Bin Jung, Young-Seuk Park

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Ambrosia Beetle Attacks in Mediterranean Cork Oak Forests Following Fire: Which Factors Drive Host Selection? by Filipe X. Catry, Manuela Branco, Francisco Moreira, Edmundo Sousa, Francisco Rego

Subjects: “…<i>Platypus cylindrus</i>…”
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Diferente comportamiento de Megaplatypus mutatus (= Platypus sulcatus) (CHAPUIS, 1865) en un ensayo comparativo de rendimiento de 30 clones de Populus deltoides Batr. en el bajo Delta Bonaerense del Río Paraná by E. Casaubon, G. Cueto, C. Spagarino

“…El «taladrillo de los forestales», Megaplatypus mutatus (=Platypus sulcatus) Chapuis, es la plaga más importante de los álamos de la Argentina. …”
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Phenological studies of some rain forest herbs in Peninsular Malaysia by Kiew, Ruth

“…Trees in Peninsular Malaysia show seasonality for leafing (with two main peaks a year) and flowering (with a major season in February to May and in some species a second minor season in August and September) in spite of the variability shown by individuals. Didymocarpus platypus (Gesneriaceae) and Pentaphragma horsjieldii (Pentaphragmataceae) produce flowers throughout the year, although the flower buds of D. platypus "wait" and then open simultaneously. …”
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Morphological studies on the cupulae of free neuromasts along with the growth of larvae in cyprinid fish by Mukai, Yukinori, Kobayashi, Hiroshi

“…The free neuromasts were morphologically investigated in the larvae of two cyprinid fish, Zacco platypus and Gnathopogon elongatus caerulescens. In Z. platypus that mainly inhabits rivers, cupulae increased in length and became flat in shape (the so-called nail type) along with growth in the larval stage. …”
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Integrating mapping-, assembly- and haplotype-based approaches for calling variants in clinical sequencing applications by Rimmer, A, Phan, H, Mathieson, I, Iqbal, Z, Twigg, S, Wilkie, A, Mcvean, G, Lunter, G

“…We present a new approach to this problem, implemented in a software package called Platypus. Platypus achieves high sensitivity and specificity for SNPs, indels and complex polymorphisms by using local de novo assembly to generate candidate variants, followed by local realignment and probabilistic haplotype estimation. …”

Making the most of RNA-seq: Pre-processing sequencing data with Opossum for reliable SNP variant detection by Oikkonen, L, Lise, S

“…Opossum pre-processes RNA-seq reads prior to variant calling, and although it has been designed to work specifically with Platypus, it can be used equally well with other variant callers such as GATK HaplotypeCaller. …”

National-Scale Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Two Native Freshwater Fish Using a Habitat Suitability Model by Taeyong Shim, Zhonghyun Kim, Dongil Seo, Jinho Jung

“…Under the same condition, EHS for <i>Z. platypus</i> and <i>N. koreanus</i> at 36.5% and 44.4% of 115 sites, respectively, were expected to degrade significantly (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Evolution, Expression and Meiotic Behavior of Genes Involved in Chromosome Segregation of Monotremes by Filip Pajpach, Linda Shearwin-Whyatt, Frank Grützner

“…This indicates that the specific distribution of SMC3 on the sex chromosome complex may have evolved specifically in platypus.…”
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Integrating mapping-, assembly- and haplotype-based approaches for calling variants in clinical sequencing applications. by Rimmer, A, Phan, H, Mathieson, I, Iqbal, Z, Twigg, SR, Wilkie, A, McVean, G, Lunter, G

“…We present a new approach to this problem, implemented in a software package called Platypus. Platypus achieves high sensitivity and specificity for SNPs, indels and complex polymorphisms by using local de novo assembly to generate candidate variants, followed by local realignment and probabilistic haplotype estimation. …”

Color vision evolution in egg-laying mammals: insights from visual photoreceptors and daily activities of Australian echidnas by Shiina Sakamoto, Yuka Matsushita, Akihiro Itoigawa, Takumi Ezawa, Takeshi Fujitani, Kenichiro Takakura, Yang Zhou, Guojie Zhang, Frank Grutzner, Shoji Kawamura, Takashi Hayakawa

“…To date, very few studies have examined the visual adaptation of echidna and platypus. In the present study, we show that echidna and platypus have different light absorption spectra in their dichromatic visual sensory systems at the molecular level. …”
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Transcriptomic Prediction of Pig <i>Liver-Enriched Gene 1</i> Functions in a Liver Cell Line by Zhe Zhang, Zizengchen Wang, Yanna Dang, Jinyang Wang, Sakthidasan Jayaprakash, Huanan Wang, Jin He

“…Additionally, gene set enrichment analysis revealed that platypus <i>MLP</i> shows antibacterial activity, confirming the functional study in platypus. …”
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Predicting the virulence of future emerging zoonotic viruses. by Samuel Alizon

“…Would you rather kiss a platypus, a hedgehog, or a llama? According to a new study in this issue of PLOS Biology, the virulence of a zoonotic virus in humans depends on its reservoir host. …”
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Critical Review and Conceptual and Quantitative Models for the Transfer and Depuration of Ciguatoxins in Fishes by Michael J. Holmes, Bill Venables, Richard J. Lewis

“…We review and develop conceptual models for the bio-transfer of ciguatoxins in food chains for Platypus Bay and the Great Barrier Reef on the east coast of Australia. …”
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Convergent gene losses and pseudogenizations in multiple lineages of stomachless fishes by Akira Kato, Supriya Pipil, Chihiro Ota, Makoto Kusakabe, Taro Watanabe, Ayumi Nagashima, An-Ping Chen, Zinia Islam, Naoko Hayashi, Marty Kwok-Shing Wong, Masayuki Komada, Michael F. Romero, Yoshio Takei

“…These results revealed novel convergent gene losses at multiple loci among the four major groups of agastric fish, as well as a single gene loss in the echidna and platypus.…”
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Antagonism among DUX family members evolved from an ancestral toxic single homeodomain protein by Darko Bosnakovski, Erik A. Toso, Elizabeth T. Ener, Micah D. Gearhart, Lulu Yin, Felipe F. Lüttmann, Alessandro Magli, Ke Shi, Johnny Kim, Hideki Aihara, Michael Kyba

“…We evaluate the 3 human DUX genes and the ancestral single homeobox gene sDUX from the non-eutherian mammal, platypus, and find that DUX4 cytotoxicity is not shared with DUXA or DUXB, but surprisingly is shared with platypus sDUX, which binds DNA as a homodimer and activates numerous ZGA genes and long terminal repeat (LTR) elements. …”
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Evaluating the impacts of reduced sampling density in a systematic fisheries-independent survey design by Lukas DeFilippo, Stan Kotwicki, Lewis Barnett, Jon Richar, Michael A. Litzow, William T. Stockhausen, Katie Palof

“…We investigate the effects of removing these corner stations on survey data quality for focal P. platypus stocks and other crab and groundfish species monitored by the EBS survey. …”
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“Living fossils” and the mosaic evolution of characters by Olivier Rieppel

“…Prime examples mentioned by Darwin already—who also coined the term “living fossil”—include the platypus and the extant lungfishes. However, the identification of archaic traits in extant organisms requires a basis of comparison, i.e., it requires an estimate of the phylogenetic interrelationships of the living fossil in question. …”
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