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. 2021 Jan 6;592(7856):756–762. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-03039-0

Fig. 4. Genomic features related to biological characteristics of the monotremes.

Fig. 4

a, Differences in numbers of TAS2R, OR and V1R genes between platypus and echidna. b, Phylogeny and synteny of the HP gene. Regions are not drawn to scale. c, Synteny conservation of the region surrounding caseins (CSN genes) and the ancestral teeth genes (ODAM, FDCSP, AMTN, AMBN and ENAM). Silhouettes of the human, opossum, koala and frog are from https://www.flaticon.com/. Silhouettes of the platypus and Tasmanian devil are created by S. Werning and the emu silhouette is created by D. Naish (vectorized by T. M. Keesey); all three silhouettes are reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).