Characterization of the antimicrobial peptide family defensins in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), and tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii)

The identification of immune genes in the milk transcriptome of the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)

(2016) Rehana V. Hewavisenti et al.   PeerJ

Cathelicidins in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)

(2016) E. Peel et al.   Scientific Reports

The first anionic defensin from amphibians

(2015) Lin Wei et al.   AMINO ACIDS

Evolution of the avian β-defensin and cathelicidin genes

(2015) Yuanyuan Cheng et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Comparative Mechanistic Studies of Brilacidin, Daptomycin, and the Antimicrobial Peptide LL16

(2014) Bruk Mensa et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

A transcriptome resource for the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus): insights into koala retrovirus transcription and sequence diversity

(2014) Matthew Hobbs et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Ensembl 2015

(2014) Fiona Cunningham et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Rattusin, an Intestinal α-Defensin-Related Peptide in Rats with a Unique Cysteine Spacing Pattern and Salt-Insensitive Antibacterial Activities

(2013) Amar A. Patil et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

FUBAR: A Fast, Unconstrained Bayesian AppRoximation for Inferring Selection

(2013) B. Murrell et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Recent advances in understanding the biology, epidemiology and control of chlamydial infections in koalas

(2013) Adam Polkinghorne et al.   VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY

Genome Sequencing and Analysis of the Tasmanian Devil and Its Transmissible Cancer

(2012) Elizabeth P. Murchison et al.   CELL

CRS-peptides: unique defense peptides of mouse Paneth cells

(2012) M L Andersson et al.   Mucosal Immunology

Detecting Individual Sites Subject to Episodic Diversifying Selection

(2012) Ben Murrell et al.   PLoS Genetics

Using integrated population modelling to quantify the implications of multiple threatening processes for a rapidly declining population

(2011) Jonathan R. Rhodes et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Transcriptomic analysis supports similar functional roles for the two thymuses of the tammar wallaby

(2011) Emily SW Wong et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Reproductive tissue-specific expression profiling and genetic variation across a 19 gene bovine β-defensin cluster

(2011) Fernando Narciandi et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

HMMER web server: interactive sequence similarity searching

(2011) R. D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Ancient Antimicrobial Peptides Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens: Australian Mammals Provide New Options

(2011) Jianghui Wang et al.   PLoS One

A Common Mutation in the Defensin DEFB126 Causes Impaired Sperm Function and Subfertility

(2011) T. L. Tollner et al.   Science Translational Medicine

Genome sequence of an Australian kangaroo, Macropus eugenii, provides insight into the evolution of mammalian reproduction and development

(2011) Marilyn B Renfree et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Datamonkey 2010: a suite of phylogenetic analysis tools for evolutionary biology

(2010) W. Delport et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Host defense peptides and their antimicrobial-immunomodulatory duality

(2010) Lars Steinstraesser et al.   IMMUNOBIOLOGY

Potential of immunomodulatory host defense peptides as novel anti-infectives

(2009) Donna M. Easton et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

PVS: a web server for protein sequence variability analysis tuned to facilitate conserved epitope discovery

(2008) M. Garcia-Boronat et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH