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| Title |
Transcriptomic analysis supports similar functional roles for the two thymuses of the tammar wallaby
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| Published in |
BMC Genomics, August 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-12-420 |
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| Authors |
Emily SW Wong, Anthony T Papenfuss, Andreas Heger, Arthur L Hsu, Chris P Ponting, Robert D Miller, Jane C Fenelon, Marilyn B Renfree, Richard A Gibbs, Katherine Belov |
| Abstract |
The thymus plays a critical role in the development and maturation of T-cells. Humans have a single thoracic thymus and presence of a second thymus is considered an anomaly. However, many vertebrates have multiple thymuses. The tammar wallaby has two thymuses: a thoracic thymus (typically found in all mammals) and a dominant cervical thymus. Researchers have known about the presence of the two wallaby thymuses since the 1800s, but no genome-wide research has been carried out into possible functional differences between the two thymic tissues. Here, we used pyrosequencing to compare the transcriptomes of a cervical and thoracic thymus from a single 178 day old tammar wallaby. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 22 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 22 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 27% |
| Researcher | 6 | 27% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 5% |
| Professor | 1 | 5% |
| Lecturer | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 2 | 9% |
| Unknown | 5 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 36% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 4 | 18% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 9% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 5% |
| Engineering | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 6 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 August 2011.
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