Platypus resources

Publications

From immunome to venome: defensins and the evolution of platypus venom

Camilla Whittington¹, Anthony T. Papenfuss², Paramjit Bansal³, Shona Blair³, Allan Torres⁴, Emily S. W. Wong¹, Tina Graves⁵, Amber Alsop⁶, Janine Deakin⁶, Kyriena Schatzkamer⁵, Colin Kremitzki⁵, Chris P. Ponting⁷, Peter Temple-Smith⁸, Wes Warren⁵, Philip Kuchel³, Katherine Belov¹

¹Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia
²Bioinformatics Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, VIC 3050 Australia
³School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
⁴Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group, College of Health and Science, University of Western Sydney, NSW 1797 Australia
⁵Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
⁶ARC Centre for Kangaroo Genomics, Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
⁷MRC Functional Genetics Unit, University of Oxford, Department of Human Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QX, UK
⁸Centre for Reproduction and Development, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Clayton VIC 3168 Australia, and Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010 Australia

Published in Genome Research

Sequence data

Alpha and beta defensins

DLPs

CNP

NGF

Identification of Natural Killer Cell Receptor Clusters in the Platypus Genome Reveals an Expansion of C-Type Lectin Genes

Emily S.W. Wong¹, Claire E. Sanderson¹, Janine E. Deakin², Camilla Whittington¹, Anthony T. Papenfuss³, Katherine Belov¹⁺

¹Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia
²Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
³Bioinformatics Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Parkville, Australia
⁺Corresponding author

Submitted

Alignments

Predicted NK domain proteins (fasta format)

Alignment of NKC proteins from platypus and other species (clustal format; 1.83Mb)