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- Genotypic analysis of Mucor from the platypus in AustraliaJ H Connolly
EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation Industry and Investment NSW and Charles Sturt University, Charles Sturt University, PO Box 588, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
J Wildl Dis 46:55-69. 2010..is the only pathogen known to cause significant morbidity and mortality in the free-living platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in Tasmania...
- Ornithorhynchus anatinus (platypus) links the evolution of immunoglobulin genes in eutherian mammals and nonmammalian tetrapodsYaofeng Zhao
State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People s Republic of China
J Immunol 183:3285-93. 2009..We report in this study that the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) Ig H chain constant region gene locus contains eight Ig encoding genes, which are arranged in an mu-..
- Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolutionWesley C Warren
Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8501, 4444 Forest Park Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
Nature 453:175-83. 2008We present a draft genome sequence of the platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus. This monotreme exhibits a fascinating combination of reptilian and mammalian characters...
- Disruption and pseudoautosomal localization of the major histocompatibility complex in monotremesJuliane C Dohm
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestr, 63 73, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Genome Biol 8:R175. 2007The monotremes, represented by the duck-billed platypus and the echidnas, are the most divergent species within mammals, featuring a flamboyant mix of reptilian, mammalian and specialized characteristics...
- M6P/IGF2R imprinting evolution in mammalsJ K Killian
Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Mol Cell 5:707-16. 2000..Unless there was convergent evolution of M6P/ IGF2R imprinting and receptor IGF2 binding in marsupials and eutherians, our results also demonstrate that these two functions evolved in a mammalian clade exclusive of monotremes...
- Evidence for an early appearance of modern post-switch immunoglobulin isotypes in mammalian evolution (II); cloning of IgE, IgG1 and IgG2 from a monotreme, the duck-billed platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinusM Vernersson
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Uppsala, The Biomedical Center, Uppsala, Sweden
Eur J Immunol 32:2145-55. 2002..present an analysis of the Ig expression in an egg-laying mammal, a monotreme, the duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). Fragments of platypus IgG and IgE cDNA were obtained by a PCR-based screening using degenerate primers...
- The mitochondrial genome of a monotreme--the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)A Janke
Zoologisches Institut, Universitat Munchen, Germany
J Mol Evol 42:153-9. 1996The complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome of a platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) was determined. Its overall genomic organization is similar to that of placental mammals, Xenopus laevis, and fishes...
- Distribution of keratin and associated proteins in the epidermis of monotreme, marsupial, and placental mammalsLorenzo Alibardi
Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale, University of Bologna, 40126, Bologna, Italy
J Morphol 258:49-66. 2003..Those skin regions lacking hairs (platypus web), or showing reduced pelage density (wombat) have, respectively, minute or indiscernible KHGs, associated ..
- Glucocorticoids in the blood plasma of the platypus Ornithorynchus anatinusI R McDonald
Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
J Endocrinol 118:407-15. 1988..PAGE) revealed no evidence for a transcortin-like glucocorticoid- and progesterone-binding protein in platypus plasma...
- The oldest platypus and its bearing on divergence timing of the platypus and echidna cladesTimothy Rowe
Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, C1100, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:1238-42. 2008..mute during two decades of discussion about molecular clock estimates of the timing of divergence between the platypus and echidna clades...
- Karyotypic conservation in the mammalian order monotremata (subclass Prototheria)J M Wrigley
Department of Genetics and Human Variation, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
Chromosoma 96:231-47. 1988The order Monotremata, comprising the platypus and two species of echidna (Australian and Nuigini) is the only extant representative of the mammalian subclass Prototheria, which diverged from subclass Theria (marsupials and placental ..
- Identification of novel mammalian caspases reveals an important role of gene loss in shaping the human caspase repertoireLeopold Eckhart
Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Mol Biol Evol 25:831-41. 2008..Caspase-17, which is most similar to caspase-3, has been conserved among fish, frog, chicken, lizard, and the platypus but is absent from marsupials and placental mammals...
- The immunoglobulin heavy chain locus in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)F Gambón-Deza
Vigo University Hospital Complex, Pontevedra, Spain
Mol Immunol 46:2515-23. 2009..These data and the characterization of the IGH locus in platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), allow us to elucidate the changes that took place in this genomic region during evolution from reptile ..
- Epigenetic modifications on X chromosomes in marsupial and monotreme mammals and implications for evolution of dosage compensationWillem Rens
Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 OES, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:17657-62. 2010..on somatic cells of the female Australian marsupial possum Trichosurus vulpecula, the female platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus, and control mouse cells. The two marsupial X's were different for all epigenetic features tested...
- Loss of genes implicated in gastric function during platypus evolutionGonzalo R Ordóñez
Departamento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto Universitario de Oncologia, Universidad de Oviedo, Fernando Bongera s n, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
Genome Biol 9:R81. 2008The duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) belongs to the mammalian subclass Prototheria, which diverged from the Theria line early in mammalian evolution...
- Cyto- and chemoarchitecture of the sensory trigeminal nuclei of the echidna, platypus and ratKen W S Ashwell
Department of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
J Chem Neuroanat 31:81-107. 2006..trigeminal nucleus and the oralis and interpolaris spinal trigeminal nuclei were substantially larger in the platypus than in either the echidna or rat, but the caudalis subnucleus was similar in size in both monotremes and the rat...
- Identification of two FoxP3 genes in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) with differential induction patternsTiehui Wang
Scottish Fish Immunology Research Centre, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 2TZ, UK
Mol Immunol 47:2563-74. 2010..fish, amphibians and monotreme mammals compared to eutherian mammals, suggesting that FoxP3 in fish, frog and platypus may have a different role to the human and mouse counterpart that defines the Treg cellular lineage and mediates ..
- The thalamus of the monotremes: cyto- and myeloarchitecture and chemical neuroanatomyShawn Mikula
Centre for Neuroscience, University of California, 1544 Newton Court, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 363:2415-40. 2008Echidna and platypus brains were sectioned and stained by Nissl or myelin stains or immunocytochemically for calcium-binding proteins, gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) or other antigens...
- The unique sex chromosome system in platypus and echidnaM A Ferguson-Smith
Cambridge Resource Centre for Comparative Genomics, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge CB3 0ES, UK
Genetika 46:1314-9. 2010A striking example of the power of chromosome painting has been the resolution of the male platypus karyotype and the pairing relationships of the chain often sex chromosomes...
- Phylogenetic analysis of the MS4A and TMEM176 gene familiesJonathan Zuccolo
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
PLoS ONE 5:e9369. 2010..In this study, we examined the evolutionary history of the MS4A/TMEM176 families as well as tissue expression of the phylogenetically earliest members, in order to investigate their possible origins in immune cells...
- The hypothalamic supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the echidna and platypusKen W S Ashwell
Department of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Brain Behav Evol 68:197-217. 2006..tract in two monotremes: the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) and the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)...
- Chemoarchitecture of the monotreme olfactory bulbKen W S Ashwell
Department of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Brain Behav Evol 67:69-84. 2006The cyto- and chemoarchitecture of the olfactory bulb of two monotremes (shortbeaked echidna and platypus) was studied to determine if there are any chemoarchitectural differences from therian mammals...
- Wood consumption by Geoffroyi's spider monkeys and its role in mineral supplementationOscar M Chaves
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
PLoS ONE 6:e25070. 2011..In general, wood consumption was focused on trees of Licania platypus (Chrysobalanaceae) and Ficus spp...
- Cyto- and chemoarchitecture of the monotreme olfactory tubercleKen W S Ashwell
Department of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Brain Behav Evol 67:85-102. 2006This study was undertaken to determine whether the olfactory tubercles of two monotremes (platypus and echidna) showed cyto- or chemoarchitectural differences from the tubercles of therian mammals...
- The genomes of the South American opossum (Monodelphis domestica) and platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) encode a more complete purine catabolic pathway than placental mammalsAlaine C Keebaugh
Graduate Program in Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Comp Biochem Physiol Part D Genomics Proteomics 4:174-8. 2009..in a marsupial, the South American opossum (Monodelphis domestica), and a monotreme, the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)...
- Responses of electroreceptors in the snout of the echidnaJ E Gregory
Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
J Physiol 414:521-38. 1989..Similar glands in skin of the platypus have previously been shown to be the sites of electroreceptors. 6...
- Marsupials and Eutherians reunited: genetic evidence for the Theria hypothesis of mammalian evolutionJ K Killian
Departments of Radiation Oncology and Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3433, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Mamm Genome 12:513-7. 2001..growth factor II receptor (M6P/IGF2R), from representatives of all three mammalian groups, including platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and ..
- Immunoglobulin genetics of Ornithorhynchus anatinus (platypus) and Tachyglossus aculeatus (short-beaked echidna)Katherine Belov
Evolutionary Biology Unit, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney 2010, Australia
Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 136:811-9. 2003..Preliminary analysis of monotreme heavy chain variable region diversity suggests that the platypus primarily uses a single VH clan, while the short-beaked echidna utilises at least 4 distinct VH families which ..
- Sparganosis in the monotremes Tachyglossus aculeatus and Ornithorhynchus anatinus in AustraliaR Whittington
Healesville Sanctuary, Australia
J Wildl Dis 28:636-40. 1992..Several plerocercoids also were found in the lung of a platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) associated with parenchymal compression and focal pneumonia.
- Sensory receptors in monotremesU Proske
Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 353:1187-98. 1998This is a summary of the current knowledge of sensory receptors in skin of the bill of the platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, and the snout of the echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus...
- Characterisation of monotreme caseins reveals lineage-specific expansion of an ancestral casein locus in mammalsChristophe M Lefèvre
Institute for Technology Research and Innovation, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, VIC 3217, Australia
Reprod Fertil Dev 21:1015-27. 2009..cDNA sequencing approach we characterised milk-protein sequences from two monotreme species, platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) and found a full set of caseins and casein variants...
- The region homologous to the X-chromosome inactivation centre has been disrupted in marsupial and monotreme mammalsTimothy A Hore
ARC Centre for Kangaroo Genomics, Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Chromosome Res 15:147-61. 2007..We found that these genes map to two distant locations on the opossum X, and also to different locations on a platypus autosome...
- Possible differences in pathogenicity between cane toad-, frog- and platypus-derived isolates of Mucor amphibiorum, and a platypus-derived isolate of Mucor circinelloidesN J Stewart
School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Med Mycol 43:127-32. 2005Platypuses (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in the north of the island state of Tasmania, Australia, suffer from a serious disease called ulcerative mycosis, which is responsible for high morbidity and, presumably, mortality rates in areas ..
- Cloning and structural analysis of two highly divergent IgA isotypes, IgA1 and IgA2 from the duck billed platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinusM Vernersson
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Uppsala, The Biomedical Center, Husargatan 3, Box 596, S 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden
Mol Immunol 47:785-91. 2010..IgA isotypes during vertebrate evolution we have studied the immunoglobulin repertoire of a model monotreme, the platypus. Two highly divergent IgA-like isotypes (IgA1 and IgA2) were identified and their primary structures were ..
- Photic and circadian regulations of melatonin rhythms in fishesM Iigo
Department of Anatomy, St Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Miyamae, Japan
Biol Signals 6:225-32. 1997..when ocular melatonin rhythms were compared in two cyprinids, the ugui Tribolodon hakonensis and the oikawa Zacco platypus occupying different ecological niches, ocular melatonin contents exhibited daily variations, with higher values ..
- The anterior olfactory nucleus and piriform cortex of the echidna and platypusKen W S Ashwell
Department of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Brain Behav Evol 67:203-27. 2006..cyto- and chemoarchitecture of the anterior olfactory nucleus and piriform cortex of the short-beaked echidna and platypus were studied to determine: (1) if these areas contain chemically distinct subdivisions, and (2) if the ..
- Body temperature-related structural transitions of monotremal and human hemoglobinI Digel
Department of Cellular Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Aachen, 52428 Juelich, Germany
Biophys J 91:3014-21. 2006In this study, temperature-related structural changes were investigated in human, duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus, body temperature T(b) = 31-33 degrees C), and echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus, body temperature T(b) = 32-33 ..
- Phylogenetic origins of early alterations in brain region proportionsChristine J Charvet
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior and Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, Calif 92687 4550, USA
Brain Behav Evol 75:104-10. 2010..The presumptive tectum of the platypus is unusually small...
- The toxicogenomic multiverse: convergent recruitment of proteins into animal venomsBryan G Fry
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3010 Australia
Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet 10:483-511. 2009..animals, including centipedes, cephalopods, cone snails, fish, insects (several independent venom systems), platypus, scorpions, shrews, spiders, toxicoferan reptiles (lizards and snakes), and sea anemones...
- Cyto- and chemoarchitecture of the cerebellum of the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)K W S Ashwell
Department of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Brain Behav Evol 70:71-89. 2007The monotremes (echidnas and platypus) have been claimed by some authors to show 'avian' or 'reptilian' features in the gross morphology and microscopic anatomy of the cerebellum...
- Lactose synthesis in a monotreme, the echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus): isolation and amino acid sequence of echidna alpha-lactalbuminM Messer
Department of Biochemistry, University of Sydney, N S W, Australia
Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 118:403-10. 1997..Its amino acid sequence is more similar to that of another monotreme, the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), than to the sequences of eutherian or marsupial alpha-lactalbumins...
- Description of a cranial endocast from a fossil platypus, Obdurodon dicksoni (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae), and the relevance of endocranial characters to monotreme monophylyThomas E Macrini
Jackson School of Geosciences and University of Texas High Resolution X ray Computed Tomography Facility, University of Texas at Austin, 78712, USA
J Morphol 267:1000-15. 2006..with reference to endocasts extracted from skulls of the three species of extant monotremes, particularly Ornithorhynchus anatinus, the duckbill platypus...
- Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the neurotrophins from monotremes and marsupialsK Kullander
Department of Developmental Neuroscience, Box 587, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, S 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
J Mol Evol 45:311-21. 1997..PCR was used to amplify fragments encoding parts of the neurotrophin genes from echidna, platypus, and eight marsupials from four different orders...
- The distribution of 5-hydroxytryptamine in the gastrointestinal tract of reptiles, birds and a prototherian mammal. An immunohistochemical studyS Adamson
Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Cell Tissue Res 251:633-9. 1988..of 5-hydroxytryptamine in the gut of several species of birds and reptiles, and of a prototherian mammal, the platypus, was studied using a monoclonal antibody...
- Serological survey for evidence of Leptospira interrogans in free-living platypuses (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)L Loewenstein
Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, Camden, NSW 2570, Australia
Aust Vet J 86:242-5. 2008..To survey free-living platypuses for evidence of Leptospira interrogans...
- Parathyroids and ultimobranchial bodies in monotremesJ I Haynes
Department of Anatomical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia
Anat Rec 254:269-80. 1999..and ultimobranchial bodies in the primitive mammals, the echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) and platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)...
- "Intermediate zone" of mammalian spleens: light and electron microscopic study of three primitive mammalian species (platypus, shrew, and mole) with special reference to intrasplenic arteriovenous communicationY Tanaka
Department of Clinical Pathology, Ohme Municipal General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Am J Anat 187:313-37. 1990The intermediate zone (IZ) of nonperfused and perfused spleens in three species of primitive mammals (shrew, mole, platypus) was studied morphologically...
- Biomechanics and energetics in aquatic and semiaquatic mammals: platypus to whaleF E Fish
Department of Biology, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383, USA
Physiol Biochem Zool 73:683-98. 2000..It is these intermediate animals that indicate which potential selection factors and mechanical constraints may have directed the evolution of more derived aquatic forms...
- Monotreme ossification sequences and the riddle of mammalian skeletal developmentVera Weisbecker
Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing St CB2 3EQ, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Evolution 65:1323-35. 2011..Here, I present the first postcranial ossification sequences of the monotreme echidna and platypus, and compare these with published data from other mammals and amniotes...
- Long conserved fragments upstream of Mammalian polyadenylation sitesEric S Ho
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Nelson Laboratories, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
Genome Biol Evol 3:654-66. 2011..When an even more remote transitional mammal, platypus, was included, still over a thousand CFs were found in the proximity of the PAS...
- The distribution and morphological characteristics of catecholaminergic cells in the brain of monotremes as revealed by tyrosine hydroxylase immunohistochemistryP R Manger
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, Neurobiology Research 151A3, Sepulveda VAMC, North Hills, Calif, USA
Brain Behav Evol 60:298-314. 2002..cellular morphology of catecholaminergic neurons in the CNS of two species of monotreme, the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)...
- Platypus chain reaction: directional and ordered meiotic pairing of the multiple sex chromosome chain in Ornithorhynchus anatinusTasman Daish
Discipline of Genetics, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Reprod Fertil Dev 21:976-84. 2009..unique animals with an unusually complex sex chromosome system that is composed of ten chromosomes in platypus and nine in echidna. These chromosomes are alternately linked (X1Y1, X2Y2, .....
- Pika and vole mitochondrial genomes increase support for both rodent monophyly and gliresYu Hsin Lin
Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Gene 294:119-29. 2002..However, when this tree is rooted with marsupials plus platypus, the outgroup often joins the lineage leading to the three murid rodents, so the rodents are no longer ..
- Tox-Prot, the toxin protein annotation program of the Swiss-Prot protein knowledgebaseFlorence Jungo
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Centre Medical Universitaire, 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland
Toxicon 45:293-301. 2005..such as snakes, scorpions, spiders, jellyfish, insects, cone snails, sea anemones, lizards, some fish, and platypus are equipped with a specialized organ to inject venom in their prey...
- Cyto- and chemoarchitecture of the amygdala of a monotreme, Tachyglossus aculeatus (the short-beaked echidna)Ken W S Ashwell
Department of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Australia
J Chem Neuroanat 30:82-104. 2005..Volumetric analysis indicated that the temporal amygdala in both the platypus and echidna is small compared to the same structure in both insectivores and primates, with the central and ..
- Molecular evolution of dentin phosphoprotein among toothed and toothless animalsDianalee A McKnight
Craniofacial and Skeletal Diseases Branch, NIDCR, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda MD 20892, USA
BMC Evol Biol 9:299. 2009....
- Marsupial and monotreme genomesE Koina
Comparative Genomics Group and ARC Centre for Kangaroo Genomics, Research School of Biological Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Genome Dyn 2:111-22. 2006..Marsupials (e.g. kangaroo, opossum) and monotremes (e.g. platypus) differ from placental mammals in many characteristics, particularly reproduction...
- Evolution of an X-linked primate-specific micro RNA clusterJingjing Li
Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Mol Biol Evol 27:671-83. 2010..species but unidentifiable in other mammalian species (including mouse, rat, cat, dog, horse, cow, opossum, and platypus), suggesting that the formation of this cluster was after the primate-rodent split but before the emergence of ..
- DMRT gene cluster analysis in the platypus: new insights into genomic organization and regulatory regionsNisrine El-Mogharbel
Comparative Genomics Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, P O Box 475, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Genomics 89:10-21. 2007We isolated and characterized a cluster of platypus DMRT genes and compared their arrangement, location, and sequence across vertebrates. The DMRT gene cluster on human 9p24...
- Retrotransposon silencing by DNA methylation can drive mammalian genomic imprintingShunsuke Suzuki
Department of Epigenetics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
PLoS Genet 3:e55. 2007..marsupial tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), but not in a prototherian mammal, the egg-laying platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), suggesting its close relationship to the origin of placentation in therian mammals...
- Uncertain breeding: a short history of reproduction in monotremesP Temple-Smith
Department of Conservation and Research, Zoological Parks and Gardens Board, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Reprod Fertil Dev 13:487-97. 2001..significant gains in knowledge have ensued; for example a more accurate estimate of the gestation period of the platypus and the incubation period for the Tachyglossus egg...
- Cone visual pigments of monotremes: filling the phylogenetic gapMatthew J Wakefield
ARC, Centre for Kangaroo Genomics, Bioinformatics, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Australia
Vis Neurosci 25:257-64. 2008..the sequence and genomic organization of the genes encoding the cone visual pigment of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and the echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), and inferred their spectral properties and evolutionary ..
- Fishborne trematode metacercariae in freshwater fish from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, ChinaWoon Mok Sohn
Department of Parasitology and Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju, Korea
Korean J Parasitol 47:249-57. 2009..Total 13 C. sinensis metacercariae were found in 3 out of 10 Hemibarbus maculatus from Yangshuo. All 7 Zacco platypus from Yangshuo were infected with 8-112 Echinochasmus perfoliatus metacercariae. In fish from Binyang-xian, H...
- Characterization and evolution of vertebrate indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenases IDOs from monotremes and marsupialsHajime J Yuasa
Molecular Immunopathology Unit, Discipline of Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 153:137-44. 2009..In this study, we isolated both IDO1 and IDO2 cDNA from a monotreme, the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), and a marsupial, the gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica)...
- Lung development of monotremes: evidence for the mammalian morphotypeKirsten Ferner
Institute of Systematic Zoology, Museum of Natural History, Berlin, Germany
Anat Rec (Hoboken) 292:190-201. 2009..The lung development in monotremes (Ornithorhynchus anatinus, Tachyglossus aculeatus), in one marsupial (Monodelphis domestica), and one altricial eutherian (Suncus ..
- Evolution of mammalian X-chromosome inactivation: sex chromatin in monotremes and marsupialsL M McKay
Department of Genetics and Human Variation, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic
Aust J Biol Sci 40:397-404. 1987..chromatin body in these same tissues in marsupials (brush-tail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula) and monotremes (platypus, Ornithorynchus anatinus), using classical histological techniques...
- Drought until death do us part: a case study of the desiccation-tolerance of a tropical moist forest seedling-tree, Licania platypus (Hemsl.) FritschMelvin T Tyree
USDA Forest Service, PO Box 968, Burlington, VT 05402, USA
J Exp Bot 53:2239-47. 2002Studies of the desiccation tolerance of 15-month-old Licania platypus (Hemsl.) Fritsch seedlings were performed on potted plants...
- Receptors in the bill of the platypusJ E Gregory
Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
J Physiol 400:349-66. 19881. Afferent responses were recorded from filaments of the trigeminal nerve in each of two platypuses (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) anaesthetized with alpha-chloralose...
- Comparative retinal morphology of the platypusCaroline J Zeiss
Section of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
J Morphol 272:949-57. 2011The purpose of this study is to identify evolutionary origin and fate of anatomic features of the duck-billed platypus eye...
- Higher-order genome organization in platypus and chicken sperm and repositioning of sex chromosomes during mammalian evolutionEnkhjargal Tsend-Ayush
School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Chromosoma 118:53-69. 2009..Monotremes (platypus and echidnas) are the most basal group of living mammals...
- In the platypus a meiotic chain of ten sex chromosomes shares genes with the bird Z and mammal X chromosomesFrank Grützner
Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, GPO Box 475, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
Nature 432:913-7. 2004Two centuries after the duck-billed platypus was discovered, monotreme chromosome systems remain deeply puzzling...
- Identification and structural analysis of four serine proteases in a monotreme, the platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinusM Poorafshar
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Uppsala, Biomedical Center, Sweden
Immunogenetics 52:19-28. 2000..here the primary structure of four serine proteases expressed in the spleen of a monotreme, the platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus. Partial cDNA clones for four serine proteases were isolated by a PCR-based strategy...
- Defensins and the convergent evolution of platypus and reptile venom genesCamilla M Whittington
Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
Genome Res 18:986-94. 2008When the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) was first discovered, it was thought to be a taxidermist's hoax, as it has a blend of mammalian and reptilian features...
- Serological responses against the pathogenic dimorphic fungus Mucor amphibiorum in populations of platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) with and without ulcerative mycotic dermatitisR J Whittington
Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, Private Mail Bag 3, NSW 2570, Camden, Australia
Vet Microbiol 87:59-71. 2002..Mucor amphibiorum, a dimorphic fungus, causes ulcerative dermatitis and systemic infections in the platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus in some river systems in Tasmania but apparently not in other regions of Australia...
- Low incidence of N-glycolylneuraminic acid in birds and reptiles and its absence in the platypusRoland Schauer
Biochemisches Institut, Christian Albrechts Universitat zu Kiel, Olshausenstr 40, D 24098 Kiel, Germany
Carbohydr Res 344:1494-500. 2009The sialic acids of the platypus, birds, and reptiles were investigated with regard to the occurrence of N-glycolylneuraminic (Neu5Gc) acid...
- Mammalian l-to-d-amino-acid-residue isomerase from platypus venomAllan M Torres
School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, Building G08, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
FEBS Lett 580:1587-91. 2006..polypeptides, defensin-like peptide (DLP)-2 and Ornithorhyncus venom C-type natriuretic peptide (OvCNP)b, in platypus venom suggested the existence of a mammalian d-amino-acid-residue isomerase(s) responsible for the modification ..
- D-amino acid residue in a defensin-like peptide from platypus venom: effect on structure and chromatographic propertiesAllan M Torres
School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Biochem J 391:215-20. 2005The recent discovery that the natriuretic peptide OvCNPb (Ornithorhynchus venom C-type natriuretic peptide B) from platypus (Ornithorynchus anatinus) venom contains a D-amino acid residue suggested that other D-amino-acid-containing ..
- Potential impact of global warming on deciduous oak dieback caused by ambrosia fungus Raffaelea sp. carried by ambrosia beetle Platypus quercivorus (Coleoptera: Platypodidae) in JapanN Kamata
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, 920 1192, Japan
Bull Entomol Res 92:119-26. 2002..The symbiotic ambrosia fungus Raffaelea sp. is the causal agent of oak dieback, and is vectored by Platypus quercivorus (Murayama). This is the first example of an ambrosia beetle fungus that kills vigorous trees...
- Donkey orchid symptomless virus: a viral 'platypus' from Australian terrestrial orchidsStephen J Wylie
Australian Plant Virology Laboratory, Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
PLoS ONE 8:e79587. 2013..The MP shares an evolutionary history with MPs of dianthoviruses, but the other putative proteins are distant from plant viruses. DOSV is not readily classified in current lower order virus taxa. ..
- The major histocompatibility complex in monotremes: an analysis of the evolution of Mhc class I genes across all three mammalian subclassesKatarzyna B Miska
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA
Immunogenetics 54:381-93. 2002..major histocompatibility complex class-I ( Mhc-I) genes from two species of monotremes: the duck-billed platypus and the short-beaked echidna...
- Sequence and functional conservation of the intergenic region between the head-to-head genes encoding the small heat shock proteins alphaB-crystallin and HspB2 in the mammalian lineageLinda Doerwald
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
J Mol Evol 59:674-86. 2004..The intergenic distance between the genes for these two proteins in mammals ranges from 645 bp (platypus) to 1069 bp (opossum), with an average of about 900 bp; in chicken the distance was the same as in duck (1.6 kb)...
- Multi-level stressor analysis from the DNA/biochemical level to community levels in an urban stream and integrative health response (IHR) assessmentsJae Hoon Lee
Department of Biological Science, College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
J Environ Sci Health A Tox Hazard Subst Environ Eng 48:211-22. 2013..e., liver, kidney, and gill, at the S (i) site. Population-level analysis using the sentinel species Zacco platypus showed that the regression coefficient (b) was 3.012 for the S (i) site and 2...
- Identification of two distinct genes at the vertebrate TRPC2 locus and their characterisation in a marsupial and a monotremeStephen Frankenberg
Department of Zoology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
BMC Mol Biol 12:39. 2011..Both VRs have a common receptor activation cascade involving transient receptor potential channel, subfamily C, member 2 (TRPC2)...
- Integrative assessment of biomarker responses in pale chub (Zacco platypus) exposed to copper and benzo[a]pyreneWoo Keun Kim
Ecotoxicology Research Center, Korea Institute of Toxicology, Daejeon 305 343, Republic of Korea
Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 92:71-8. 2013..25, 5, and 20μg/L) and benzo[a]pyrene (BaP: 0.5, 5, and 50μg/L) induced in the freshwater pale chub Zacco platypus. Except for the kidney tissues when exposed to 20μg Cu/L, no significant differences were observed at the ..
- Molecular evolution of the non-coding eosinophil granule ontogeny transcriptDominic Rose
Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg Freiburg, Germany
Front Genet 2:69. 2011..carnivores, afrotherians, and xenarthrans, as well as putative candidates from basal amniotes, such as opossum or platypus. We investigate the EGOT gene phylogeny, analyze patterns of sequence conservation, and the evolutionary ..
- Detection of platypus-type L/D-peptide isomerase activity in aqueous extracts of papaya fruitKensuke Arakawa
School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney, Building G08, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Biotechnol Lett 34:1659-65. 2012..This is the first report of peptide isomerase activity in a plant and suggests that perhaps every living organism may have some peptide isomerase activity...
- Development of the cerebellum in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)Ken W S Ashwell
Department of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Brain Behav Evol 79:237-51. 2012..Those activities are most likely controlled by the spinal cord and medullary reticular formation circuitry...
- Molecular evolution of matrix metalloproteinase 20Kazuhiko Kawasaki
Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Eur J Oral Sci 119:247-53. 2011..Nevertheless, for unknown reasons, we failed to identify MMP20 in the platypus genome. In the opossum, lizard, and frog genomes, MMP20 was found clustered with MMP13...
- The Prime Minister and the platypus: A paradox goes to warNatalie Lawrence
St John s College, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 1TP, UK
Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci 43:290-7. 2012..1943, in the midst of the Second World War, Prime Minister Winston Churchill demanded that a live duck-billed platypus be sent from Australia to Britain. A vigorous male was shipped off but died shortly before arrival in Britain...
- Human microRNAs originated from two periods at accelerated rates in mammalian evolutionHisakazu Iwama
Life Science Research Center, Kagawa University, Kita gun, Kagawa, Japan
Mol Biol Evol 30:613-26. 2013..periods during which each of 1,433 present human miRNA genes originated within 15 periods, from human to platypus-human common ancestral branch and a class "conserved beyond theria," primarily using multiple genome alignments ..
- A porcine gene, PBK, differentially expressed in the longissimus muscle from Meishan and Large White pigLiu Yonggang
College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming China
Genet Mol Biol 32:771-5. 2009..horse, cattle, human, chimpanzee, crab-eating macaque, rhesus monkey, rat, mouse, gray short-tailed opossum and platypus, so it can be defined as the porcine PBK gene. This gene was finally assigned GeneID:100141310...
- Identification of three prominin homologs and characterization of their messenger RNA expression in Xenopus laevis tissuesZhou Han
Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030, USA
Mol Vis 17:1381-96. 2011..In this study, we identified three prominin homologs in Xenopus laevis, a model animal widely used in vision research, and characterized their messenger RNA (mRNA) expression in selected tissues of this frog...
- Regulation of expression of zebrafish (Danio rerio) insulin-like growth factor 2 receptor: implications for evolution at the IGF2R locusMatina Tsalavouta
School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Evol Dev 11:546-58. 2009..AUGs (uAUGs) are a feature of IGF2R genes in several other vertebrates, including Xiphophorus, Xenopus, chicken, platypus, and opossum, but not in eutherian mammals...
- Eggs, embryos and the evolution of imprinting: insights from the platypus genomeMarilyn B Renfree
ARC Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics, Australia
Reprod Fertil Dev 21:935-42. 2009..The recent release of the platypus genome sequence has provided the first opportunity to make comparisons between prototherian (monotreme, which ..
- Mechanism of Cd(II) adsorption by macrofungus Pleurotus platypusR Vimala
School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore 632014, Tamil Nadu, India
J Environ Sci (China) 23:288-93. 2011The mechanism of Cd(II) uptake by the dead biomass of macrofungus Pleurotus platypus was investigated using different chemical and instrumental techniques...
- Monotreme sex chromosomes--implications for the evolution of amniote sex chromosomesPaul D Waters
Comparative Genomics Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, School of Biology, The Australian National University, GPO Box 475, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Reprod Fertil Dev 21:943-51. 2009..In particular, the recent completion of the platypus genome sequence has completely changed our understanding of when the therian mammal X and Y chromosomes first ..
- The platypus is not a rodent: DNA hybridization, amniote phylogeny and the palimpsest theoryJ A Kirsch
University of Wisconsin Zoological Museum, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 353:1221-37. 1998....
- Genetic structure of the oak wilt vector beetle Platypus quercivorus: inferences toward the process of damaged area expansionEtsuko Shoda-Kagaya
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
BMC Ecol 10:21. 2010The ambrosia beetle, Platypus quercivorus, is the vector of oak wilt, one of the most serious forest diseases in Japan...
- Fungus symbionts colonizing the galleries of the ambrosia beetle Platypus quercivorusRikiya Endoh
Laboratory of Environmental Mycoscience, Division of Environmental Science and Technology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake cho, Sakyo ku, Kyoto, 606 8502, Japan
Microb Ecol 62:106-20. 2011Isolations were made to determine the fungal symbionts colonizing Platypus quercivorus beetle galleries of dead or dying Quercus laurifolia, Castanopsis cuspidata, Quercus serrata, Quercus crispula, and Quercus robur...
- A newly classified vertebrate calpain protease, directly ancestral to CAPN1 and 2, episodically evolved a restricted physiological function in placental mammalsDaniel J Macqueen
Physiological and Evolutionary Genomics Laboratory, School of Biology, Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom
Mol Biol Evol 27:1886-902. 2010..an approximately 7-fold elevation in d(N)/d(S) is evident along the CAPN11 branch splitting eutherians from platypus, paralleled by a shift to "testis-specific" gene regulation...
- Mammalian peptide isomerase: platypus-type activity is present in mouse heartJennifer M S Koh
School of Molecular Biosciences, Building G08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Chem Biodivers 7:1603-11. 2010Male platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) venom has a peptidyl aminoacyl L/D-isomerase (hereafter called peptide isomerase) that converts the second amino acid residue in from the N-terminus from the L- to the D-form, and vice versa...
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- COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY OF SLEEPJerome Siegel; Fiscal Year: 1999..adapted from applicant's abstract): In the current grant period, these investigators have found that the platypus and echidna, primitive mammals previously thought to lack REM sleep, have REM sleep in very large amounts...
- MOLECULAR EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS OF COLOR VISIONWen Hsiung Li; Fiscal Year: 2000..individuals from a series of species: Two marsupials (opossum and red-necked wallaby); One monotreme (platypus); One owl monkey and 8 prosimians; Four bats (two mega, two micro); Three rodents; Three carnivores; Study ..
- High throughput cell migration assay amenable to high content imagingKEREN HULKOWER; Fiscal Year: 2010..Based on proven success in launching the Oris" product line, Platypus has the skills, knowledge, and infrastructure to develop, validate and manufacture products for cell-based assays...
- Multiplexed Personal Monitoring of Airborne ToxinsBHARAT ACHARYA; Fiscal Year: 2007..detected from a vapor phase by utilizing chemically functionalized, nanostructured surfaces and liquid crystals (Platypus( technology). What is needed, however, is a monitor that simultaneously measures exposure to multiple compounds...
- Biophotonics for Detection of West Nile VirusBarbara Israel; Fiscal Year: 2002b>Platypus technology is a radically different approach to the detection and simultaneous identification of viruses...
- Personal dosimeter for OP's using nano-structure surfac*Barbara Israel; Fiscal Year: 2002..b>Platypus Technology (TM) represents a radically different approach to determining instantaneous (real time) and cumulative ..
- Phylogenetic Comparisons of Imprinted DomainsRandy Jirtle; Fiscal Year: 2007..BAC) libraries from the imprinted opossum (Didelphus virginiana) and the non-imprinted platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) to examine imprinted domains containing genes involved in cancer that are regulated by three different ..
- Biophotonic Detection of WNV ABS. for Multiple SpeciesBarbara Israel; Fiscal Year: 2002..b>Platypus technology is based on the exquisite sensitivity of liquid crystals to nanometer scale changes in surface ..
- Obliquely deposited substrates for detection of RasBarbara Israel; Fiscal Year: 2003..b>Platypus technology is a novel, broadly applicable platform nanotechnology based on the sensitivity of liquid crystals to ..
- Personal Dosimeter for OPs Using Nano-structured SurfaceBarbara Israel; Fiscal Year: 2006..These data strongly support the feasibility of Platypus TM technology as the basis of small, inexpensive, rugged passive monitors suitable for measuring cumulative ..
- Biophotonic detection of WNV Abs from Multiple SpeciesRENEE HERBER; Fiscal Year: 2007..This Phase 2 proposal will further the development of a fundamentally new, broadly applicable technology (Platypus technology) for the rapid, label-free detection of proteins...
- Nanostructured substrates for cell assays.Barbara Israel; Fiscal Year: 2004..b>Platypus Technology (tm) can be the foundation for such assays to accelerate basic cell research, drug discovery, and ..
- Liquid crystal based enzyme activity assayBarbara Israel; Fiscal Year: 2005..b>Platypus TM technology can be the foundation for such assays to accelerate basic research, drug discovery, evaluation of ..
- HORMONAL MODULATION OF A COMMUNICATION SIGNALHarold Zakon; Fiscal Year: 2007..unreadable] [unreadable] [unreadable]..
- Characterization of the flexible portions of fibrinogenRussell Doolittle; Fiscal Year: 2007..These studies are aimed at determining the degree of specificity involved in the assembly of fibrin units and protofibrils as well as the relative locations of the regions involved. ..
- MICROARRAY ANALYSIS OF RETINAL DEGENERATION IN MICECaroline Zeiss; Fiscal Year: 2007..Colin Barnstable, Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology, who is an internationally recognized molecular biologist using mouse models of retinal development and degeneration. ..
- Control of Mammalian Meiotic RecombinationTerry Ashley; Fiscal Year: 2007..In addition, we will examine the effects of mutations in genes likely to be involved in control of frequency and distribution of recombination. ..
- The Role of Sedlin in Maintaining Cartilage IntegrityDouglas Mortlock; Fiscal Year: 2005..Moreover, we anticipate that these studies will yield valuable insight into the role of the sedlin pathway in maintaining cartilage integrity and its derangement in osteoarthritis. ..
- MALE STERILITY AND MEIOTIC CHECKPOINTTerry Ashley; Fiscal Year: 2004..Our results will lead to a better understanding of some of the underlying causes of male sterility and could also lead to new insights into development of a male contraceptive. ..
- STRUCTURAL STUDIES ON FIBRINOGEN AND FIBRINRussell Doolittle; Fiscal Year: 2003..Combined with the full structures of the native molecules at high resolution, these results should dispel much of the mystery of fibrin formation. ..
- FUNCTION AND CONSERVATION IN GLOBIN LOCUS CONTROL REGIONRoss Hardison; Fiscal Year: 2001..5 and isolate the binding proteins. ..
- "Gdf6 gene expression and evolution in vertebrates"Douglas Mortlock; Fiscal Year: 2009..These experiments will provide extensive insights into the conservation of this important signaling pathway gene in different animal models and the role genomic sequences play in normal skeletal patterning. ..


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The men and women on the front lines of our military are some of the strongest in the world, but it takes a lot to get there and a lot to get back there when they are wounded or injured. That's why there are physical training and rehabilitation programs at military installments across the nation.
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Foreign Policy journal's blog, The Cable, reported earlier this hour about a PR fiasco last month involving POTUS, the F-22 and the backdrop for the TV cameras in an Elmendorf AFB hangar.
When President Obama spoke to troops at Alaska's ElmendorfAir Force Base last month, the unit there parked a shiny new F-22 fighter planein the hanger. But according to multiple sources, White House aides demanded theplane be changed to an older F-15 fighter because they didn't want Obamaspeaking in front of the F-22, a controversial program he fought hard to end.
"White House aides actually made them remove the F-22-saidthey would not allow POTUS to be pictured with the F-22 in any way, shape, orform," one source close to the unit relayed.
Stephen Lee, a publicaffairs officer at Elmendorf, confirmed to The Cable that the F-22 wasparked in the hanger and then was replaced by an F-15 at the White House'sbehest.
The airmen there took offense to the Obama aides' demand,sources told The Cable, seeing it as a slight to the folks who areoperating the F-22 proudly every day. They also expressed bewilderment that theWhite House staff would even care so much as to make an issue out of the factthat the F-22 was placed in the hanger with the president.


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Every Monday and Thursday a truck brings goods from Target to the new Goodwill facility in Hampton.
Serious thrift store shoppers know that when the items with pink tags hit the retail floor, they won't last long.
"This will sell today," says Darick Bell, as he prices a bouquet of silk flowers. Each flower stem costs $10.95, according to Target's UPC code. Bell marks them down by 50 percent.
That's the process that most goods go through in Goodwill's warehouse. On a recent weekday morning, I spent a few hours working alongside employees in the thrift store's backroom.
Thrift store shopping has gained ground on the Peninsula in the last five years, with the Boys and Girls Club of the Virginia Peninsula opening three new stores and various privately owned shops, like Village Thrift in Newport News and Hampton or Budget Thrift in Newport News, popping up new locations.
Goodwill has added a number of new stores on the Peninsula. Its focus is shifting from the now-established Central Virginia area, which includes the Richmond and Mechanicsville territory, to the Hampton Roads region, says Martha Murdock, director of retail operations.
The new Hampton location, housed in a former Target building on Saville Row, includes a retail location, an outlet store and a large warehouse operation that manages salvage and trash items.
I chose this store for our work-day study because we could follow the entire life of a donation at the facility. Operations at other thrift stores follow a similar process, although pricing models vary.
How it works
When a donation is dropped off, employees sort it into category bins. Some broken or damaged items immediately go into salvage bins.
I started the morning sorting clothes with a young woman named Jazz, who asked that her last name not be used. Jazz, who is working on her master's degree at Norfolk State University, explained that any clothing items with a stain, tear or other defect are tossed into the "bail bin." Of the large blue container we worked from, roughly 40 percent of clothes were bailed. Jazz had a particular aversion to underwear and socks and automatically marked most of them as bail items.
Clothes in the bail bins are run through a machine that packs them into a compact square which is then sold to vendors who often take them overseas.
The goal, she says, is to put items on the retail floor that customers will buy. If it is in a condition that she wouldn't wear, she bails it.
If a clothing donation remains unsold, it also goes into the bail pile.
Pricing items
After sorting, I moved onto pricing the clothes. Gail Jones trained me in this area, explaining everything from colored tags to sanitizing comforters.
The group in the textiles department works from a standardized pricing list. A T-shirt, for example, could cost anywhere from $3.99 to $5.99, depending on the condition, its brand and whether it carries a popular logo or affiliation. A Redskins T-shirt will be priced higher, for example.
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When the Almighty tinkers around with our genes before He plops us down on this big scary Earth, sometimes the results are amazing. His name is Gai. He has posed for some photographs that will set off flights of fantasy, for both men and women. As for you straight guys … are you beginning to have second thoughts?
Is it diet? Is it hours of workouts in the gym? Is it living right? Who knows. All I can say is Gai obviously doesn't eat as many M & Ms as I do.
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"Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own." ~Nikos Kazantzakis (A blog for building and collapsing in the public school system.) Photo by author, Kamara tou Koraka, a natural bridge in Cyprus at Cavo Greco.
Myth Buster: "Teachers must work tirelessly to be effective."
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I thought your emphasis on effective teaching rather than good teaching to be interesting. But I found the key moment in the piece - the moment I found myself saying "exactly!" - when you mentioned working realistically. That is something many (particularly new) teachers struggle with.ReplyDelete
I don't know if you are a fan of archetypal thinking but I couldn't help but have Carol Pearson's book "The Hero Within" come to mind during this reading. In it she discusses the "martyr" archetype in its highest, most effective form and its shadow, least effective form. Teachers not only operate from the shadow but are encouraged to do so.
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Thanks, James! One of my former students wrote in response to the blog, too:ReplyDelete
"MK- I really enjoyed this particular blog. I feel the same logic can be applied to the ideology of a "good parent" or "good spouse". Why is living so selflessly looked upon as the only way to succeed? We need our teachers to have happy full lives so our students can be surrounded by (using your vocabulary) effective energy and in turn become effective leaders! Thanks for sharing!"
Her question: Why is living so selflessly looked upon as the ONLY way to succeed? is what I was trying to hone in on. (Of course, she did it in one sentence...)
I don't know about archetypal thinking, but it looks like something I should know! I'll definitely check it out!


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Flow, the secret to happiness
It's a state of mind, it's an Android app and it can be induced in work groups
The idea of "flow" as a mental state that you can almost put your hands on, or that at least in some sense is measurable and quantifiable, got its greatest or initial impetus from a psychologist named Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, whose research has been published in books with titles like The Concept of Flow; Beyond Boredom and Anxiety; and The Flow Experience and its Significance for Human Psychology.
A concise definition describes flow as a "unique state of concentration in which action seems to be effortless." A more verbose one says flow is the "mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement and enjoyment in the process of an activity." A final definition might be, "a staple of sports announcers."
As Mihaly might be the first to admit, this idea that we humans have mental states that strike us as analogous to, say, the way water moves in nature, in all its beauty and majesty, seems to be embedded in language itself rather than being something that somebody came up with at a specific time or place.
In fact, one writer on this subject seems to go very far out of his way to note that all this new stuff has nothing to do with the 1960s phrase "go with the flow." Guess he didn't want us to think it had anything to do with beatniks or hippies.
Some things flow, while others do not. Cash, most noticeably, flows, but so does information. A basketball or even a baseball game can flow, but can the same really be said about a football game? Here we're talking bulk solids.
Controlling the flow
In ancient times humans seized control of the physical-world flow, with ditches and drainage and irrigation work being necessary conditions for agriculture, and civilization itself. In more modern days, in pursuit of process production, we know flow and how to move it through pipes, tubes, hoses and fittings.
As this flowmeter solutions supplement to Processing magazine makes clear, there are more ways to measure flow than you can shake a stick at, and process industry professionals on a daily basis apply the principles of flow to a world that isn't conceptual but real. Process industries change the flow itself, mixing it up on the one hand or filtering and separating it on the other; heating or cooling it and transforming it into something other.
Thus, it's not at all surprising that, having once discovered this other, mental-state kind of flow, psychologists and sundry are next seeking to gain control of it, for either profit or pleasure. Self-proclaimed gurus, whether on the marketing side or the spiritual side, proclaim that being able to tap into flow-like mental states is the "secret to happiness."
In order to achieve flow in the workplace, researchers say, three conditions are necessary: goals must be clear, feedback immediate and a balance must be found between opportunity and capacity. The commercially available software program called "Flow," for online task management and team collaboration, undoubtedly incorporates many of the tools researchers have devised in an attempt to demonstrate that flow can be measured and controlled. But at the end of the day a lot of it is just a new way of stating eternal truths about how all kinds of work gets done.
On the other hand, we're extremely good at applying flow to games and entertainment. The cigarette-sated individual seated in front of a casino slot machine may be the most classic example of someone who is in the flow. "Flow" is also an Android app on Google Play that is a puzzle game that allows you to connect matching colors with pipe, to create a flow while you're in the flow.
In this issue
We hope you enjoy this 2013 edition of Processing's Flowmeter Solutions. It's clear "flow" can mean many different things to many different people. From this point on, however, we promise to stick to our knitting and talk about flow as in the chemical, food & beverage, pharmaceutical and other process industries.
A bent-tube Coriolis flowmeter and its use in entrained gas applications is the subject of the issue's lead feature. For much of the general public the idea of entrained gas and its possible deleterious effects is associated with the Deep Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But multiphase flows can be important wherever ratio blending is being done and gas can be entrained, such as in pharmaceutical or water/waste applications involving use of a metering pump.
Also in this issue, Dr. Jesse Yoder, a regular contributor to Processing magazine, talks about custody transfer in the oil & gas industry. My understanding is in the oil fields what's measured at the individual wells and the delivered aggregated output from many wells rarely matches up. And the challenge isn't just technical. The economics of oil-and-gas exploration and development are such that a well's output may be split up into minute percentages of ownership. So a lot of money is riding on those transfers.
Finally, because Processing's readers are equipment users, we have a feature editorial on flow and other type measurements when it comes to the pumps that move the flow.
Thanks for giving us a look.


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No need to take potassium iodide at this time
Tablets would protect thyroid gland from absorbing iodine contaminated by radiation
In Japan, health authorities have distributed almost a quarter-million units of potassium iodide tablets as a precautionary measure against radiation exposure from the severely damaged and leaking nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.
Many Californians are wondering whether they should be taking the tablets. Some probably are already doing so. A run on potassium iodide pills has rendered them scarce through the state and region.
Potassium iodide is a stable form of iodine – a naturally occurring trace element that is essential to human health. In the case of the leaking Japanese reactors, however, the iodine being released (a byproduct of nuclear fission) is radioactive. Sufficient exposure to it can result in thyroid cancer, which has proved to be the major negative health impact caused by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster.
We asked Dr. Richard Clark, director in the Division of Medical Toxicology for the UC San Diego Health System, and medical director of the Poison Control Center in San Diego, to assess the situation and comment on what San Diegans should – or should not – do.
Q: Why is potassium iodide administered to people who have been exposed to – or may be exposed to – nuclear radiation?
A: When a nuclear accident or explosion occurs, particles are released into the air, some of which are radioactive. These particles can be inhaled, or get into the water or food of humans and animals, and in that way taken into our bodies. Some of these radioactive particles include radioactive iodine particles that can be taken up by our thyroid gland. Some people who get radioactive iodine taken up by their thyroid gland can develop cancer or other thyroid problems days or years down the road. By giving susceptible people potassium iodide, or KI, supplements, a person can "saturate" the thyroid gland with iodine and keep it from taking up the radioactive iodine particles that might be present in the body.
Q: Is it equally effective pre- and post-exposure?
A: The KI supplements are most effective if given pre-exposure, but only need to be taken a short time before the exposure. The most at-risk people would be those under 40, particularly children, and pregnant women. There is a possibility that those over 40 may not even require potassium iodide.
Q: What is standard treatment? Are there side effects? Who shouldn't take the pills?
A: The standard treatment is different depending on the age of the person, but for adults over 18 or so it is 130 mg of KI a day until the contamination is gone. The side effects include potentially life-threatening allergic reactions and possible damage to the thyroid gland in some individuals from the supplements themselves. Anyone with allergies to iodine, seafood (many of which contain iodine, particularly shellfish), or iodine-containing medications should not take iodine supplements. Anyone with a known or suspected thyroid condition should check with a health care provider before taking iodine supplements.
Q: Does potassium iodide offer any protection against other radioactive elements besides iodine?


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The Sony BDP-S5100 Blu-ray player offers a wealth of services and very good image quality for the money.
Here you'll find a list of our favorite Blu-ray players, with a heavy emphasis on value.
The Philips HTB3525B packs Blu-ray, Smart TV, and Bluetooth into an affordable sound bar, making it a great choice if you're looking for an all-in-one system.
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Ultra HD '4K' Blu-ray discs are due to hit the market at the end of 2015 with enhanced resolution, expanded color and more. Here's the 411 so far.
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For its price, the BlueDriver is a convenient tool for those who want some ability to work on and understand modern engines.
When you're ready to take on projects yourself, you need to have the right tools. Find out what you need to equip your nerdy toolbox.
Facebook is rolling out new photo-editing tools for iOS users to get more creative with photos.
In Windows 10, the Snipping tool lets you delay your shutter speed when you capture screenshots.
In the "Star Trek" universe, humans made contact with aliens in 2063. In the real world, scientists could beat that mark by decades, at least when it comes to detecting signs of life beyond this rock.
The Apple Watch is the most ambitious, well-constructed smartwatch ever seen, but first-gen shortfalls make it feel more like a fashionable toy than a necessary tool.
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MEMBER BLOG: Reflections on SAVEadmin : October 8, 2014 6:35 pm : Featured Blog
Nineteen years ago the AMA Alliance began our SAVE program- Stop America's Violence Everywhere. We observe SAVE Day on the second Wednesday of each October. The focus of the program has been to provide children's anti-violence education through the use of placemats (Hands Are Not For Hitting) and booklets (I Can Choose, I Can Be, I Can Be Safe, You Can Handle Bullies) to elementary schools. We've had SAVE-A-Shelter and Adopt-a-School. In 2000, a grant from the AMA Foundation funded the creation of puzzles of the Hands placemat—a million of them-that were distributed throughout the country. Our work led us to participate in the National Health Care Collaborative on Violence and Abuse.
My local newspaper, the Knoxville News-Sentinel, recently quoted Miroslav Volf, a Croatian theologian, "Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common."
It is important to look at our SAVE program in context to what was happening in our country. Twenty years ago, there were two things that had huge impact:
- The bipartisan Federal Violence Against Women Act was passed. This legislation gave support for programs at the local level for legal aid, law enforcement and advocates in non-profit organizations.
- Nicole Brown Simpson was murdered and her ex-husband, ex-NFL football player O.J. Simpson was facing charges for the crime. This case brought media attention like nothing else to the issue. It is ironic that a recent case of intimate partner violence involving an NFL player has done the same.
In 1995, as incoming county alliance president, I was in Chicago when the SAVE Program was launched in Chicago. The issue spoke to my heart as a young mother and nurse. Working with this project has altered my personal and professional journey. One thing led to another and my involvement led to serving as executive director of the Community Coalition on Family Violence.
Ten years ago, the VAW Act was renewed with funding to create Family Justice Centers. Our Coalition applied for a $1 million grant and opened one of the first fifteen "one stop" centers for service for domestic violence. The movement has spread, not only at the Federal level, but also in my home state of TN. Governor Bill Haslam, who was incoming county mayor when we applied for our FJC grant, understands the issues and has created a statewide initiative for more centers. It is an honor to serve on the board of the Knoxville Family Justice Center and support its progress.
Until intimate partner violence is not acceptable anytime, anywhere; until it truly affects the pocketbooks of sports and business corporations so that those in power will take a stand that intimate partner violence is wrong and perpetrators are held accountable, women will still be afraid to seek help and to get out of these harmful relationships. Children will still think that hands ARE for hitting because they see the violence between the adults in their homes.
The message of SAVE-that Hands are NOT for hitting-is a timeless one.
There is more work to be done. Alliance members are well suited and well positioned in their communities to carry the message. What we do may be a "plink in the bucket," but it is a good sound that can resonate and make a difference-one child at a time, one adult who gets a safety card paid for by an alliance grant, one adult who gets a care package in a shelter, one person who makes a call to a help line after seeing a poster in a doctor's office. The message to Stop America's Violence Everywhere is just as relevant today.
Jo Terry, Immediate Past President
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Tour Leaders
Alexander Alvarado
Alexander grew up in Copan Ruinas in western Honduras. He became interested in birds many years ago whilst working for a hotel in Copan. He then began to work for a bird park and nature reserve in Copan which served as an open door for his passion. In 2006 he started studying Honduran birds in different habitats by traveling to various parts of the country and at that time started guiding birders in Copan Ruinas. He is a member of the Honduran Ornithological Association and is now one of the top bird guides in Honduras with extensive experience leading birding groups and individuals. He has currently seen more than 500 species in Honduras.
Dr Svetlana Ashby
Svetlana was born in Russia but lived in Kazakhstan for many years where she led scientific research in wildlife biology and was a lecturer in environmental studies at the State Agricultural University in Almaty. She has birded widely around the world including Russia and other former Soviet Union countries. She is founder of and principal tour leader for Kazakhstan Bird Tours having extensive knowledge of all aspects of Kazakhstan's natural history and culture.
Vaughan Ashby
Vaughan became interested in birds in the early 1960s and started birding seriously in the mid 1970s. He founded Birdfinders in 1993 running tours for local RSPB groups and in 1996, after 24 years working as an assistant bank manager, turned it into a full time occupation. He has since travelled extensively around the world and has led over 200 tours to every continent on earth. He is former treasurer of Portland Bird Observatory and former Dorset Bird Report editor.
Suchit Basnet
Suchit was born in the eastern Terai of Nepal and worked as a full time naturalist in the Royal Chitwan National Park for five years during which time he accumulated an invaluable knowledge of its flora and fauna. He started work as a full time wildlife leader in 1994 and his great enthusiasm, cheerful and friendly disposition, together with exceptional ornithological knowledge has made him a very popular leader of our Nepal tours.
Solomon Berhe
Solomon has been interested in birds since childhood in Tigray province. After gaining a Natural Science degree at Addis Ababa University, he developed experience of Ethiopia's birds and habitats as he travelled to various parts of the country with his work in the coffee industry. He then began working as a birdguide and 10 years ago, started his own ground agency.
Bill Blake
Originally from south London where he studied and trained as an Industrial Chemist, Bill started birding in his early teens and soon developed a fascination for bird migration. His travels have taken him to every continent, except Antarctica, and to some of the best migration hot-spots in the world. He has travelled extensively on the Indian sub-continent, in Asia and in Africa and has led tours to these areas as well as to Europe and North America.
Tudor Blaj
Tudor is a forest engineer by profession in Romania but now leads birdwatching and wildlife tours on a full-time basis. He is an enthusiastic ornithologist with a keen eye and all-round wildlife ability and has a great love for all aspects of natural history. The Carpathian Mountains are his 'local patch'. It is an area he knows better than anyone, making him the perfect guide on our tours.
Chris Collins
Chris has visited over sixty countries and territories around the world in search of birds including multiple visits to all the continents and has seen well over 5,000 species of birds on his travels. In 2003 he decided to become a full time birder and wildlife guide and now guides trips all over the world. He has been on the managing Committee of the Neotropical Bird Club since the mid-1990s and has recently retired from the Editorial Committee of the widely acclaimed Neotropical Birding magazine.
Chamindra Dilruck
Chamindra, known as Chammy, has led Birdfinders groups in Sri Lanka since 2011 and has been guiding birders around his country for the past 15 years. With Chammy as your guide, you have the greatest chance of seeing all of the endemic and specialty birds of Sri Lanka. He has had a passion for birding since his college days and spent a whole year in the field just to learn all the sights and locations. His particular forte is finding nightbirds, particular at their daytime roosts, a skill he excels at.
Silverio Duri
Silverio was born in the rainforests of Peru and comes from the Ese-Eja indigenous community on the Tambopata River where he has spent most of his life. He has worked for many years as a rainforest natural history guide in the Tambopata-Candamo National Park and has specialized in leading bird tours for the last few years. He has the eyes and ears of a true native of the rainforests and is incredibly adept at spotting quietly sitting birds. He has broadened his horizons and is now one of our top bird tour leaders in Manu and Machu Picchu and North Peru. He is reknowned for his fieldcraft and knowledge of all aspects of rainforest ecology.
Steven Easley
Steven was born and raised in Arkansas but now lives in Costa Rica. He lived in Kenya for 5 years and has led many birding tours to the country where he has seen nearly 1000 species. He was head guide at Rancho Naturalista, the famous birding lodge in Costa Rica, for several years and now leads a number of Birdfinders' tours.
Elmer Escoto
Elmer was born in Honduras and raised in the countryside. It was there, at the edge of the Honduran rain forest, that his intimate knowledge of nature and birds was born. He began working at The Lodge at Pico Bonito in 1999, constructing trails and clearing vegetation. Within a few years, his enthusiasm, patience, natural teaching abilities, and love of nature saw him promoted to The Lodge's guide staff. Elmer applied himself, learned to speak English and eagerly began to devour every birding and nature field guide he could find. Along the way, he received extensive guiding and interpretive training from a number of organizations and The Lodge itself. Today, with nearly 10 years' experience leading international birding clients over much of Honduras, Elmer is perhaps The Lodge's most well-known and requested birding guide.
Andy Foster
Andy Foster owns and manages Serra dos Tucanos, a birders lodge based in the Atlantic rainforest of southeast Brazil. Now in its 11th year, Andy set up the lodge together with his wife Cristina back in 2002 in this endemic-rich area! Andy previously worked at a nature reserve on the south coast of England and was responsible for bird and botanical surveys. In 1995 he made his first visit to Brazil, after which he was hooked on the Neotropics! He was responsible for helping with the establishment of a local wetland reserve and conservation NGO based in the State of Rio de Janeiro. From there he went on to establish Serra dos Tucanos lodge and begun to guide birding tours within the local area. Having now spent over 10 years birding within the Tres Picos State Park where Serra dos Tucanos Lodge is located, Andy knows the local area extremely well, and has spent numerous hours in the field guiding birding trips and sharing his knowledge of the local birds with many guests!
Sid Francis
Sid's background ranges from being a shepherd on the Falkland Islands to eight years as a Red Cross worker in a refugee centre. Several years ago however, he decided to retrace some of his early birdwatching adventures but after meeting his wife to be, Meggie, he never got further than the birding hotspot of Sichuan and is now based in Chengdu. Sid and Meggie have for the last 3 years made ornithology their full-time profession; both with helping organise and leading bird tours into Sichuan and through Sichuan bird surveying work.
Robert Galardo
Robert grew up in California where he was fond of the outdoors at an early age. His passion for butterfly collecting and family camping trips kept him interested in nature ever since. He arrived in Honduras in early 1993 as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer where he worked in Olancho and then in the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve. After his service he immediately returned to Honduras to continue working and eventually became a self-taught naturalist focusing on the country´s birds, butterflies and native orchids. He soon began leading bird watching tours and in the long run became Honduras´s leading authority on its avifauna having seen 94% of its birds and adding over 35 country records. To date he has produced two CDs of bird songs and native orchids and two regional bird guides. He is currently authoring The Field Guide to the Birds of Honduras, slated to be published in 2014. See his extensive website for more info: Birds of Honduras
Neil Gartshore
Neil was formerly the Senior Warden of the RSPB's Arne-based reserves in Dorset and Dorset County Bird Recorder. From 1983 his work in nature conservation took him to many places, both in the UK and overseas, before arriving at Arne in 1991. Neil has travelled extensively in Europe, Africa, North America, Australia and the Far East and, since marrying his Japanese wife, Japan is now a regular destination.
Dimiter Georgiev
Dimiter has been working on conservation projects for over 25 years, 18 of which have been spent monitoring wintering geese around the Black Sea. Dimiter has been interested in birds since 1975 and has led birdwatching and natural history tours in Bulgaria since 1992.
Gerard Gorman
English by birth, Gerard has lived abroad for many years and is regarded as an expert on birds in Eastern Europe, where he has led over 500 tours. He is the author of several books, including Where to Watch Birds in Eastern Europe, The Birds of Hungary and Central & Eastern European Wildlife. His main interest is in woodpeckers and is also author of Woodpeckers of Europe, the monograph The Black Woodpecker and the acclaimed Woodpeckers of the World – The Complete Guide.
Joe Grosel
Joe grew up in northern South Africa and since a very young age showed a great passion for the natural environment around him. He is qualified in conservation and wildlife management and has a Masters in ornithology. However, he is most famous in the birding world for beating the 300 species in a day record in South Africa! Joe has been involved in a vast array of wildlife related activities ranging from field research in the Kruger National Park, game capture and translocation, field guide training, management of large private game reserves and environmental management for local government. Joe is based in the Limpopo Province, were he has been instrumental in establishing birding routes, bird clubs and bird watching sites. He has designed organized and conducted birding and other eco-safaris across southern Africa for over twenty years and still enjoys every excursion as much as his clients do.
Trausti Gunnarsson
Trausti is a professional wildlife guide who has been leading naturalist tours in his native country, Iceland, for more than 15 years. With a lifelong interest in birds his knowledge also extends to the flora, mammals, geology and cultural history of the island. When not looking for birds or whales he also spends many winter nights looking for the elusive Northern Lights.
Nicky Icarangal
Nicky is Birding Adventure Philippines' President and lead bird guide. Nicky has had extensive experience leading birding trips for private individuals and groups as well as for tour operators. A veteran birder himself, Nicky knows his birds. He is recognized for his talent for spotting birds and patience in calling in elusive endemics such as pittas, shamas and tailorbirds. His experience in leading tours, his keenness as a birder and his easy-going nature has made Nicky very popular with both his local and foreign clients.
Solomon Jallow
Solomon is a Gambian national who has an extensive knowledge of the birds, sites and people of his country. He is president of the West African Bird Study Association and organises Habitat Africa, a group of the best birdguides in The Gambia. Solomon's enthusiasm for birds and his easy-going nature cannot fail to make an impression on you.
Kamol Komolphalin
Kamol lives in Thailand and, as well as being an expert on its birds, is a superb artist. With his wife Patcharee organising all of the ground arrangements for our tour, we are in very safe hands.
Luis Ku
Luis was born in Yucatan and studied in the University of Yucatan. He worked for 17 years in the Botanical Garden," Dr. Alfredo Barrera Marin" of Puerto Morelos and is a specialist birding guide, the most experienced and qualified in the Yucatan Peninsula. Luis has spent the last 20 years searching for the best places to find birds around the Yucatan Peninsula and regularly guides birders in the field.
Przemysław Kunysz
Przemysław works in the Polish Forestry Department and has been involved in many conservation schemes including those for Ural Owls and Wolves. Przemek's knowledge of the sites and birds of Poland is excellent. He has led Birdfinders tours to Poland for the past ten years.
Peter Lansdown
Peter has been bird recorder and report editor for Glamorgan, a member of the British Ornithologists Union Records Committee and chairman of the British Birds Rarities Committee. His main interests are bird identification, migration and recording. He has written many published papers and is co-author of Birds of Glamorgan. Peter is a regular Birdfinders tour leader.
Neil MacLeod
Neil is rated as one of the top wildlife guides in Namibia. Neil has expanded his phenomenal birding knowledge to include wildlife, plants and almost everything else to do with nature. Working with people is second nature to him and he sets high standards for birding and wildlife tours to create memories that are never to be forgotten. Neil's intimate local knowledge ensures that his groups always find the birds and other wildlife. He is also the author of An expert's guide to finding the animals in Etosha.
David Milsom
David is an ex-pat who has lived and worked in Canada for many years. Over the past few years he has also visited many other countries throughout the world. He has a great deal of knowledge, not only of the birds of North America but also of its many other forms of wildlife, and his expertise is greatly welcomed on our Canadian Point Pelee and Michigan tour.
Xavier Muñoz-Contreras
Xavier is a conservationist by heart and is Neblina Forests founder, owner and guide by profession. He has been working as Board Member and been mentor for both AVES & CONSERVACION (previously known as CECIA) and the Jocotoco Foundation. Guiding Ecuador since 1997, Xavier nowadays also guides birding trips to Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana and Peru and is always looking for new destinations in the neotropics.
Loven Pereira
Loven, together with his partners Leio De Souza and Pramod Madaikar, operates Backwoods Camp in the Western Ghats of Goa. He is an excellent field birder who also has an in-depth knowledge of his country, its habitats and its people.
Lalaina Raoelinoro
Lalaina (known as Lala) has been a birding and wildlife guide in Madagascar since 2000 and has closely worked with our ground agents since 2005 so knows all the requirements of birders. He has been visited all the major sites in Madagascar and has worked with a number of different international tour operator both on general wildlife tours and specialist birding. He initially trained in the field of tourism in Antanarivo then trained in the field of wildlife in the Botanical and Zoological garden of Tsimbazaza and is now acknowledged as one of the best birdwatching guides in Madagascar. He speaks fluent English, French and Malagasy.
James P. Smith
James is a staff leader and has led many tours for us over the past 5 years. James was originally from Yorkshire but now lives in the northeastern US. He leads all of our US tours as well as tours to Gambia, India and Israel, where he still retains his position on the rare birds committee.
Chubzang Tangbi
Chubzang was born and brought up in Trongsa, Central Bhutan. He strongly believes in his country's environmental protection and has extensive knowledge of his country, its culture, traditions and people. Chubzang began leading birding tours in 2000 and has worked with the International Crane Foundation. Chubzang is now acknowledged as one of Bhutan's top birders. He has travelled widely in the USA, India, Thailand and the UK but returns to Bhutan to lead birding groups and to research for documentary films, photography and editorials. He is a passionate photographer and has exhibited his work in Nature Reserves and Art Centres.
Peter Taylor
Although born in Adelaide, South Australia, Peter has lived in the 'tall timber country' of Manjimup, in the southwest of Western Australia (a hotspot for endemic birds and plants) for the past 10 years. He works as a freelance wildlife tour guide, having forsaken a comfortable career with the government to follow his true passion for birds and birdwatching. He is also a regional organiser for the Australian Bird Atlas project in Western Australia. Peter leads our Western Australia endemic bird tours and from 2011, will also be leading our new Southern Australia & Tasmania endemic bird tour.
Luis Eduardo Urueña
Luis is a biologist from the Universidad del Tolima with over 14 years' experience of birding and conducting scientific research on endangered species in Colombia. For the past four years Luis has worked as a birding guide for a number of international birding companies, an opportunity that has given him valuable experience both in birding and tour logistics and now runs his own ground agency, Manakin Nature Tours. Luis Eduardo won a "Watcher Prize" from the British Petroleum Company Conservation Programme when he worked with the enigmatic Blue-billed Curassow for ProAves Fundation and has also worked with the Smithsonian Institute in the USA.
Toni Uusimäki
Toni lives on the west coast of Finland where he works as an environmental engineer. He started birdwatching in the late 1980s and over the past few years has led a number of birdwatching tours in Finland and Norway including for Birdfinders. The combination of Toni's knowledge, energy and enthusiasm makes him a very popular leader.
Nigel Warren
Nigel works for In Focus and is a well-known figure in the south-west birding scene. His extensive birding experience in the Western Palearctic, North America and Asia, combined with his sense of humour, makes him a popular leader.


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