News: monotremes
Monotremes are unique, inside and out
![Echidna credit Enguerrand Blanchy](/newsroom/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2024-07/echidna-credit-enguerrand-blanchy.jpg?h=10d202d3&itok=9EtIBfmv)
The identification of a key gene in monotremes has increased our understanding of why the stomachs of platypuses and echidnas are atypically small, non-acidic, and, in the instance of platypuses, lack a pyloric sphincter.