Professor Grutzner says:"This is an amazing example of how
millions of years of evolution can shape molecules and optimise their function.
Professor Grutzner said:“This is an amazing example of how
millions of years of evolution can shape molecules and optimise their function.
The lack of a spur on
echidnas remains an evolutionary mystery," said Grutzner,"but the fact that both platypus
and echidnas have evolved the same long-lasting form of the hormone GLP-1 is in itself a very exciting finding.".
The lack of a spur on echidnas remains an evolutionary mystery, but the fact that both platypus and echidnas have evolved the same long-lasting form of the hormone GLP-1
is in itself a very exciting finding," Professor Grutzner says.
The lack of a spur on echidnas remains an evolutionary mystery, but the fact that both platypus and echidnas have evolved the same long-lasting form of the hormone GLP-1
is in itself a very exciting finding,” Professor Grutzner said.
The lack of a spur on the echidna remains an evolutionary mystery, but the fact that both the platypus and the echidna have evolved the same long-lasting form of the hormone GLP-1 is in itself a
very exciting finding," said Prof Grutzner.
Our research team has discovered that monotremes- our iconic platypus and echidna- have evolved changes in the hormone GLP-1 that make it resistant to the rapid degradation normally seen in humans,”
said co-lead author Professor Frank Grutzner, from the University of Adelaide's School of Biological Sciences
and the Robinson Research Institute.