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The researchers are also working to compile the genome sequence of other marsupials, such as the platypus and the tama wallaby, which will be Australia's first genome project.

Armed with just 'one or two' marsupial sequences, scientists expect to be able learn much more about the little understood scourge of the facial tumours afflicting Tasmanian Devils, Dr Belov said.

The sequences would give the experts the tools to measure the immune responses to the tumours, she said.

This would allow them to better compare animals which recover from the tumours and those that don't.

'That would certainly help us understand the tumour and hopefully come up with a cure in the long term,' Dr Belov said.

Similarly, the genome sequence could help tackle chlamydia in koalas, which is often triggered by the stress of loss of habitat, she said.

Chlamydia is a common sexually transmitted infection among humans, caused by the bacterium, Chlamydia trachomatis, which can damage a womans reproductive organs. Even though symptoms of chlamydia are usually mild or absent, serious complications that cause irreversible damage, including infertility, can occur 'silently' before a woman ever recognizes a problem. Chlamydia also can cause discharge from the penis of an infected man.


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