d Distribution of upregulated genes in diseased koalas mapping to ‘GO:0002376 Immune System Process’ annotated at the CateGOrizer. It can be as simple as slowing down when driving at night, to leaving out bowls of water for wildlife in your garden in summer.

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Each assembly was filtered such that contigs accounting for 90% of mapped reads were passed to MAKER as homologous transcript evidence. KoRV is thought to have arrived in Australia via a putative murine vector before cross-species transmission 12, 13. of the main text, as well as using alternative values for the number of free atomic time intervals ( p=44, 54, or 74), initial value of rho (ρ=2, 5, or 10), and the maximum time to the most recent common ancestor ( t=10 or 20). 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 contigs (indicated by different colours) making up each koala supercontig and the size of the supercontigs are indicated. The number of atomic time intervals is similar to that recommended for analyses of modern human genomes 65, which are similar in size to the koala genomes. Supplementary Tables 17 and 18, and Supplementary Note), natural killer cell (NK) receptor 58 and defensin 60 gene clusters. Kevin feels ‘springy and light and happy and young’ when he un-clings from the security of his tree. Koalas have been observed to sniff leaves before tasting them 41, and their acute discrimination has been correlated with the complexity and concentration of plant secondary metabolites 42.

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They are fussy, too, and will select the most nutritious and tastiest leaves from the trees where they live.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). Both endogenous (germline transmission) and exogenous (infectious ‘horizontal’ transmission) forms are extant 64. Regional differentiation was also detected in analyses of mtDNA 68, 69, although over a shorter time scale.