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g. It crawls into the mother’s posteriorly opening pouch and attaches to a teat, where it remains for 6–7 months. A minimum size cutoff of 15 or 20 kb was used in the size selection stage using the Sage Science BluePippin system. Like many specialist folivores, koalas are notoriously selective feeders, making food choices both to target nutrients and to avoid plant secondary metabolites 40. Tables showing the results of testing if the mean value for each repeat is significantly different between the regions defined by the ChIP-seq experiments and the whole genome.

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Anti-chlamydia antibiotics such as chloramphenicol are degraded rapidly by koalas; treatment with a single dose applicable to humans is insufficient in koalas, which require a daily dose for up to 30 to 45 d. The ChIP-Seq peaks are labeled by appending –Bed1 along the right of the heatmap and blue along the left, while the genomic scaffolds are labeled by appending –bed2 along the region labels on the right and with a red mark on the left of the heatmap.We found notable levels of genetic diversity with limited fine-scale differentiation consistent with long-term connectivity across regions. g37228af 116) that showed expected levels of relatedness and differentiation among the sampled individuals. Long-term survival of the species depends on understanding the impacts of disease and management of genetic diversity, as well as the koala’s ability to source moisture and select suitable foraging trees.

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UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, the manually annotated section of the UniProt KnowledgeBase: how to use the entry view.Population genetics of the koala ( Phascolarctos cinereus) in north-eastern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland. Having characterized the genome, we undertook detailed analyses of key genes and gene families to gain insights into the genomic basis of the koala’s highly specialized biology. f– h, Mean EBF (natural log transformed, EBF values of 0 excluded) for koala tree tips ( n = 31; red) relative to all others ( n = 121 in 9 species (see Methods), blue).

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For the Bilbo assembly Illumina X Ten reads are submitted under PRJEB19457 and PacBio reads under PRJEB19889. Preliminary case/control association tests for five koalas involved in a chlamydia vaccination trial showed that the MHCII DMA and DMB genes, as well as the CD8-a gene, may be involved in differential immune responses to chlamydia vaccine (Supplementary Table 21 and Supplementary Note). A transcriptome resource for the koala ( Phascolarctos cinereus): insights into koala retrovirus transcription and sequence diversity. The destruction of koalas’ forest homes is a major contributor to them being listed as Endangered on Australia’s east coast. P. thank the veterinary staff at Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital, Currumbin Wildlife Hospital and Moggill Koala Hospital for their assistance in the collection of samples for the koala conjunctival transcriptome study.The koala genome offers insights into historic and contemporary population dynamics, providing evolutionary and genetic context for a species that is the focus of considerable management actions and resources. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians, whose land we work upon and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. The TRB locus contains 33 V β segments, and three sets of D β, J β, and C β segments arranged in tandem cassettes, each comprising one D β, two to four J β, and one C β.

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The inside of the 6th exon in the Tasmanian devil assembly is truncated but intact in the alternative Tasmanian devil assembly (GCA_000219685. The plots of demographic history were scaled using a generation length of 7 years, corresponding to the midpoint of the range of 6 to 8 years estimated for the koala 111 and the midpoints of the estimates of the human mutation rate (1. Approximately 30-fold coverage of Illumina short reads was used to polish the assembly with Pilon 86. mutations per site per generation 113) were applied in the absence of a mutation rate estimate for koala (Supplementary Fig. The koala’s ability to ‘taste water’ is potentially enhanced by an apparent functional duplication of the aquaporin 5 gene 45, 46, 47 (Supplementary Table 14 and Supplementary Note).Key milk proteins that form a major part of the protein content of milk across mammalian species have been identified in the koala genome, mammary transcriptome and milk proteomes. Repeat content of the centromeric regions was determined using RepBase annotated marsupial repeats and output from RepeatModeller analysis of koala.