Studying the genome of the marsupial mole
January 4, 2025 5:09 PM   Subscribe

Marsupial moles are perhaps Australia's most bizarre mammals. Known as "itjaritjari" to the Indigenous Aṉangu people and featuring prominently in their tales, the marsupial mole is rarely observed, making any sighting a rare event. Now a team led by Dr. Stephen Frankenberg and Professor Andrew Pask, has begun to unearth some of the marsupial mole's deepest evolutionary secrets by studying its genome for the first time.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries (3 comments total) 6 users marked this as a favorite
 
This is a fascinating paper. Unfortunately, they did not submit their genome assembly, which the paper analysis is based on the NCBI GenBank public archive. This limits the ability to understand the results and scientifically value the user of this data in work.

The Science editors should not have allowed this to be published without the support data.
posted by diekhans at 10:45 PM on January 4 [1 favorite]


Is this the final print version of the paper? Even the SRA links don't work which usually means the data is submitted, but not publicly released yet.
posted by bluefly at 2:46 AM on January 5 [1 favorite]


Cool paper!

Here's the Run Selector table for the raw data:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/study/?acc=SRP548807
posted by esker at 6:09 AM on January 5 [1 favorite]


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