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Journal articles
2023, 'The admixed brushtail possum genome reveals invasion history in New Zealand and novel imprinted genes', Nature Communications, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41784-8
,2023, 'Fourth Report on Chicken Genes and Chromosomes 2022', Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 162, pp. 405 - 528, http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000529376
,2023, 'Three dimensions of thermolabile sex determination', BioEssays, 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bies.202200123
,2023, 'Divergent patterns of meiotic double strand breaks and synapsis initiation dynamics suggest an evolutionary shift in the meiosis program between American and Australian marsupials', Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2023.1147610
,2022, 'Principles of 3D chromosome folding and evolutionary genome reshuffling in mammals', Cell Reports, 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111839
,2022, 'Arctic introgression and chromatin regulation facilitated rapid Qinghai-Tibet Plateau colonization by an avian predator', Nature Communications, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34138-3
,2022, 'Author Correction: Arctic introgression and chromatin regulation facilitated rapid Qinghai-Tibet Plateau colonization by an avian predator (Nature Communications, (2022), 13, 1, (6413), 10.1038/s41467-022-34138-3)', Nature Communications, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35205-5
,2022, 'Meiotic chromosome dynamics and double strand break formation in reptiles', Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2022.1009776
,2022, 'Fragile, unfaithful and persistent Ys—on how meiosis can shape sex chromosome evolution', Heredity, 129, pp. 22 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41437-022-00532-2
,2022, 'O-095 The persistent Y hypothesis', Human Reproduction, 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deac104.114
,2022, 'A role for a novel natural antisense-BDNF in the maintenance of nicotine-seeking', Addiction Neuroscience, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addicn.2022.100010
,2022, 'Strategies for meiotic sex chromosome dynamics and telomeric elongation in Marsupials', PLoS Genetics, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010040
,2021, 'Between the devil and the deep blue sea: Non-coding rnas associated with transmissible cancers in tasmanian devil, domestic dog and bivalves', Non-coding RNA, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ncrna7040072
,2021, 'Microchromosomes are building blocks of bird, reptile, and mammal chromosomes', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2112494118
,2021, 'Ancient viral integrations in marsupials: A potential antiviral defence', Virus Evolution, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ve/veab076
,2021, 'Microchromosomes are building blocks of bird, reptile and mammal chromosomes', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.06.451394
,2020, 'Do epigenetic changes drive corticosterone responses to alarm cues in larvae of an invasive Amphibian?', Integrative and Comparative Biology, 60, pp. 1481 - 1494, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaa082
,2020, 'MicroRNA dynamics during hibernation of the Australian central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps)', Scientific Reports, 10, pp. 17854, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73706-9
,2020, 'Meiotic Executioner Genes Protect the Y from Extinction', Trends in Genetics, 36, pp. 728 - 738, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2020.06.008
,2019, 'Three-Dimensional Genomic Structure and Cohesin Occupancy Correlate with Transcriptional Activity during Spermatogenesis', Cell Reports, 28, pp. 352 - 367.e9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2019.06.037
,2019, 'Waking the sleeping dragon: gene expression profiling reveals adaptive strategies of the hibernating reptile Pogona vitticeps', BMC Genomics, 20, pp. 460, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-5750-x
,2019, 'Nonlinear sequence similarity between the Xist and Rsx long noncoding RNAs suggests shared functions of tandem repeat domains', RNA, 25, pp. 1004 - 1019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1261/rna.069815.118
,2018, 'Adaptation and conservation insights from the koala genome', Nature Genetics, 50, pp. 1102 - 1111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0153-5
,2018, 'The methylome of vertebrate sex chromosomes', Genes, 9, pp. 230, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes9050230
,2018, 'Landscape of DNA methylation on the marsupial x', Molecular Biology and Evolution, 35, pp. 431 - 439, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx297
,2017, 'Fragile Y Chromosomes (retrospective on DOI 10.1002/bies.201500040)', BioEssays, 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bies.201700142
,2017, 'Differential intron retention in Jumonji chromatin modifier genes is implicated in reptile temperature-dependent sex determination', Science Advances, 3, pp. e1700731, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1700731
,2015, 'Evolution of the antisense overlap between genes for thyroid hormone receptor and rev-erbα and characterization of an exonic G-rich element that regulates splicing of TRα2 mRNA', PLoS ONE, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137893
,2015, 'The loss of fragile Y chromosomes (comment on 10.1002/bies.201500040)', BioEssays, 37, pp. 933 - 933, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bies.201500091
,2015, 'Long intervening non-coding RNA 00320 is human brain-specific and highly expressed in the cortical white matter', Neurogenetics, 16, pp. 201 - 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10048-015-0445-1
,2015, 'High expression of long intervening non-coding RNA OLMALINC in the human cortical white matter is associated with regulation of oligodendrocyte maturation', Molecular brain, 8, pp. 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13041-014-0091-9
,2015, 'High-coverage sequencing and annotated assembly of the genome of the Australian dragon lizard Pogona vitticeps', GigaScience, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13742-015-0085-2
,2015, 'Imprinted X chromosome inactivation: evolution of mechanisms in distantly related mammals', AIMS GENETICS, 2, pp. 110 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/genet.2015.2.110
,2014, 'Origins and functional evolution of y chromosomes across mammals', Nature, 508, pp. 488 - 493, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13151
,2014, 'Paternal X inactivation does not correlate with X chromosome evolutionary strata in marsupials', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14, pp. 267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0267-z
,2013, 'Independent Evolution of Transcriptional Inactivation on Sex Chromosomes in Birds and Mammals', PLoS Genetics, 9, pp. e1003635, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003635
,2013, 'Horizontal transfer of OC1 transposons in the Tasmanian devil', BMC Genomics, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-134
,2013, 'Comparative analysis of mammalian y chromosomes illuminates ancestral structure and lineage-specific evolution', Genome Research, 23, pp. 1486 - 1495, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.154286.112
,2012, 'The origin and evolution of vertebrate sex chromosomes and dosage compensation', Heredity, 108, pp. 50 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2011.106
,2011, 'Genome sequence of an Australian kangaroo, Macropus eugenii, provides insight into the evolution of mammalian reproduction and development', Genome Biology, 12, pp. 414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2011-12-8-r81
,2011, 'Evolution from XIST-independent to XIST-controlled X-chromosome inactivation: Epigenetic modifications in distantly related mammals', PLoS ONE, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019040
,2011, 'A cross-species comparison of escape from X inactivation in Eutheria: implications for evolution of X chromosome inactivation.', Chromosoma, 121, pp. 71 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00412-011-0343-8
,2011, 'Chromosomal evolution in Rattini (Muridae,Rodentia)', Chromosome Research, 19, pp. 709 - 727
,2011, 'Evolutionary history of novel genes on the tammar wallaby Y chromosome: Implications for sex chromosome evolution', Genome Research, 22, pp. 498 - 507
,2010, 'Activity map of the tammar X chromosome shows that marsupial X inactivation is incomplete and escape is stochastic', Genome Biology, 11, pp. r122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2010-11-12-r122
,2009, 'Conservation of a chromosome arm in two distantly related marsupial species.', Cytogenetic and Genome Research, 124, pp. 147 - 150
,2009, 'Does the human X contain a third evolutionary block? Origin of genes on human Xp11 and Xq28.', Genome Research, 19, pp. 1350 - 1360
,2009, 'Monotreme sex chromosomes – implications for the evolution of amniote sex chromosomes', Reproduction Fertility and Development, 21, pp. 943 - 951
,2009, 'Physical mapping of the elephant X chromosome: conservation of gene order over 105 million years.', Chromosome Research, 17, pp. 917 - 926
,2009, 'The ZW sex microchromosomes of an Australian dragon lizard share no homology with those of other reptiles or birds', Chromosome Research, 17, pp. 965 - 973
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