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Thursday 8 May 2008

RESOURCE PAGE
Platypus genome secrets revealed - Nature

Resource Page | Media Briefing | Rapid Roundup

MEDIA RELEASE
Australian Media Release (pdf) prepared by the AusSMC

Background notes on genomes (pdf) prepared by the AusSMC

AUDIO GRABS FOR RADIO
Radio stations are welcome to use any of the following short audio files of Professor Jenny Graves from the Australian National University, a co-author of the Nature paper on the platypus genome.

Audio 1 - Eagerly awaited genome
Audio 2 - Comparing us with the platypus
Audio 3 - Fork in the road
Audio 4 - Trace changes
Audio 5 - Sex chromosomes
Audio 6 - Implications for further research

PLATYPUS IMAGES
Image 1-4 have been made available to coincide with the release of this Nature Paper with the following restrictions:

Images can only be used in relation to the platypus genome story
Images can only be used for a period of 30 days from the paper's publication
Any use of the images must have the following credit: © D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook/Auscape

Platypus image 1 © D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook/Auscape (this image no longer available)
Platypus image 2 © D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook/Auscape (this image no longer available)
Platypus image 3 © D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook/Auscape (this image no longer available)
Platypus image 4 © D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook/Auscape (this image no longer available)

The following pics are available courtesy Ian Elton at Healesville Sanctuary. Please credit Ian if you use these pics.

Platypus image 5 (3.5Mb jpeg courtesy Ian Elton, Healesville Sanctuary)
Platypus image 6 (3.5Mb jpeg courtesy Ian Elton, Healesville Sanctuary)
Platypus image 7 (3.5MB jpeg courtesy Ian Elton, Healesville Sanctuary)

Platypus image 8 (Credit: Nicole Duplaix/Getty Images)

OTHER PLATYPUS IMAGES
Images are available for purchase from a number of commercial photographers. We have included the following links of platypus pics available for purchase. Please contact the photographers direct via their website.

• www.davewattsphoto.com/galleries/platypus.htm
  

VIDEO FOOTAGE
The only video footage that is freely available to media is courtesy of Frederic Veyrunes and Dr Frank Grützner. This video footage can be downloaded here. If you would like any footage taken at Healesville on the day of the briefing, please contact us.

OTHER RESOURCES AND EXTERNAL LINKS

• Washington University in St Louis media release
  
  
• The Australian Platypus Conservancy website contains general information about the biology, ecology and range of the platypus. Go to: www.platypus.asn.au
  
  
• For the platypus genome page at Washington University’s Genome Sequencing Center website go to: http://genome.wustl.edu/genome.cgi?GENOME=Ornithorhynchus%20anatinus
  
  
• Resources for exploring the sequence and annotation data are available through browser displays at Ensembl (www.ensembl.org ), UCSC (http://genome.ucsc.edu ) and the NCBI (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ).
  
  
• Timeline of events on our knowledge of the platypus (Courtesy of Peter Temple-Smith)
  
  
• Original white paper proposal to sequence the platypus genome (2003)
  
  
• R&D Review - May 2008 Opinion piece by Jenny Graves and Sue Forrest (pdf)
  

• European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) press release (pdf available on request)
  
  
• Louisiana State University media release (available on request)