News: Honours projects - Animal science
The echidna genome project
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Honours project: Take part in an international collaboration that will provide the first echidna genome assembly.
Xenobiotic metabolism in Australian marsupials
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Honours project: Investigate the dietary effect of eucalyptus terpenes on drug metabolising enzyme CYPs and UGTs in Australian marsupials.
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Plant systematics & population genetics, evolutionary ecology & plant macrofossils
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Honours project: Work with some of South Australia’s leading scientists on a research project about plant systematics and population genetics, evolutionary ecology or plant macrofossils.
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Sex chromosomes of the platypus & echidna
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Honours project: Study the meiotic organisation of monotreme sex chromosomes – that’s genetics research into the platypus and echidna.