By Associate Professor Paul Waters

Preprints

Hanrahan BJ; Wagner S; Lister NC; Whiteley SL; Xiong L; Georges A; Waters PD, 2026, DNA methylation regulates a key sex differentiation gene in Pogona vitticeps , a dragon lizard with sex reversal, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.15.731764

Hanrahan BJ; Chang JK; Dissanayake DSB; Lister NC; Georges A; Waters PD, 2026, Characterising differential gene expression and alternative splicing in a sex reversing skink, Bassiana duperreyi, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.15.731768

Hanrahan B; Alreja K; Reis A; Chang K; Dissanayake DSB; Edwards R; Bertozzi T; Hammond J; O’Meally D; Deveson I; Georges A; Waters P; Patel H, 2024, A genome assembly and annotation for the Australian alpine skink Bassiana duperreyi using long-read technologies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.05.611471

McIntyre K; Waters S; Zhong L; Hart-Smith G; Raftery M; Graves JM; Waters P, 2023, Functional coherence of the Xist and RSX protein interactomes: X chromosome inactivation in marsupials, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.08.560959

Patel HR; Alreja K; Reis ALM; Chang JK; Chew ZA; Jung H; Hammond JM; Deveson IW; Ruiz-Herrera A; Marin-Gual L; Holleley CE; Zhang X; Lister NC; Whiteley S; Xiong L; Dissanayake DSB; Waters PD; Georges A, A telomere to telomere phased genome assembly and annotation for the Australian central bearded dragon Pogona vitticeps, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.01.651798

Valero-Regalón FJ; Solé M; López-Jiménez P; Arana MV-D; Martín-Ruiz M; de la Fuente R; Marín-Gual L; Renfree MB; Shaw G; Berríos S; Fernández-Donoso R; Waters PD; Ruiz-Herrera A; Gómez R; Page J, Divergent patterns of meiotic double strand breaks and synapsis initiation dynamics suggest an evolutionary shift in the meiosis program between American and Australian marsupials, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.13.527877

Angeloni A; Hammond JM; Peters TJ; Reis ALM; Kemp L; Amos T; Gamaarachchi H; Humphries S; Wilmott LA; Pal S; Masamsetti VP; Weatherstone M; Ip KCK; Pazaky K; Steel A; Lyons R; Walters ED; Liu N; Tam P; Polo JM; Waters P; Clark SJ; Richards LJ; Smith AD; Lee H; Deveson IW; Griffith OW; Skvortsova K, DNA methylation reprogramming in marsupial embryos is restricted to the extraembryonic lineage, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686659

Skvortsova K; Angeloni A; Hammond J; Peters T; Reis ALM; Kemp L; Amos T; Gamaarachchi H; Humphries S; Wilmott L; Pal S; Masamsetti VP; Weatherstone M; Ip KCK; Pazaky K; Steel A; Lyons R; Walters E; Liu N; Tam P; Polo J; Waters P; Clark S; Richards L; Smith A; Lee H; Deveson I; Griffith O, DNA methylation reprogramming in marsupial embryos is restricted to the extraembryonic lineage, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8110586/v1

Hogg C; Edwards R; Farquharson K; Silver L; Brandies P; Peel E; Escalona M; Jaya F; Sun R; Batley K; Bradford T; Chang JK; Chen Z; Deshpande N; Dziminski M; Ewart K; Griffith O; Marin-Gual L; Moon K; Travouillon K; Waters P; Whittington C; Wilkins M; Helgen K; Lo N; Ho S; Ruiz-Herrera A; Paltridge R; Graves J; Renfree M; Shapiro B; Ottewell K; Rangers KC; Belov K, Extant and extinct bilby genomes combined with Indigenous knowledge improve conservation of a unique Australian marsupial, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3723914/v1

Lister NC; Milton AM; Patel HR; Waters SA; Hanrahan BJ; McIntyre KL; Livernois AM; Wee LK; Ringel AR; Mundlos S; Robson MI; Shearwin-Whyatt L; Grützner F; Graves JAM; Ruiz-Herrera A; Waters PD, Incomplete transcriptional dosage compensation of vertebrate sex chromosomes is balanced by post-transcriptional compensation, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.23.529605

Waters PD; Patel HR; Ruiz-Herrera A; Álvarez-González L; Lister NC; Simakov O; Ezaz T; Kaur P; Frere C; Grützner F; Georges A; Graves JAM, Microchromosomes are building blocks of bird, reptile and mammal chromosomes, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.06.451394

Sprague D; Waters SA; Kirk JM; Wang JR; Samollow PB; Waters PD; Calabrese JM, Non-linear sequence similarity between the Xist and Rsx long noncoding RNAs suggests shared functions of tandem repeat domains, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/630475

Hanrahan BJ; Chang JK; Milton AM; Lister NC; Dissanayake DSB; Hammond JM; Reis ALM; Deveson IW; Ruiz-Herrera A; Patel HR; Graves JAM; Georges A; Waters PD, Sex chromosome dosage compensation in a sex reversing skink is not influenced by sexual phenotype, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.24.554710

Formenti G; Jain N; Medico JA; Sollitto M; Antipov D; Barcellos S; Biegler M; Borges I; Chang JK; Chen Y; Cheng H; Conceição H; Davenport M; De Oliveira L; Duarte E; Durham G; Fenn J; Forde N; Galante PA; Gerhardt K; Giani AM; Giunta S; Kim J; Komissarov A; Koo B; Koren S; Larkin D; Lee C; Li H; Makova K; Masterson P; Murphy T; McCaffrey K; Mercuri RLV; Na Y; O'Connell MJ; Ou S; Phillippy A; Popova M; Rhie A; Ruiz-Ruano FJ; Secomandi S; Smeds L; Suh A; Tilley T; Vontzou N; Waters PD; Balacco J; Jarvis ED, The complete genome of a songbird, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.14.682431

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