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Top billing for platypus at end of evolution tree

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Monotreme's genome shares features with mammals, birds and reptiles.

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Brown, S. Top billing for platypus at end of evolution tree. Nature 453, 138–139 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453138a

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