Tammar wallaby`s clever immune tricks revealed

Monday, July 11, 2011 - 13:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until now, it was a mystery why many marsupials have two thymuses—key organs in the immune system—instead of the one typical of other mammals. Now postdoctoral researcher Dr. Emily Wong from the University of Sydney and her colleagues have found that the two organs are identical, which suggests why they are there.

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