The Evolution of Marsupial and Monotreme Chromosomes

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

(2012) Elizabeth P. Murchison et al.   CELL

Identification of mediator complex 26 (Crsp7) gametologs on platypus X1 and Y5 sex chromosomes: a candidate testis-determining gene in monotremes?

(2012) Enkhjargal Tsend-Ayush et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Are some chromosomes particularly good at sex? Insights from amniotes

(2012) Denis O’Meally et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Genomic Restructuring in the Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour: Chromosome Painting and Gene Mapping Provide Clues to Evolution of a Transmissible Tumour

(2012) Janine E. Deakin et al.   PLoS Genetics

A first-generation integrated tammar wallaby map and its use in creating a tammar wallaby first-generation virtual genome map

(2011) Chenwei Wang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Strong conservation of the bird Z chromosome in reptilian genomes is revealed by comparative painting despite 275 million years divergence

(2011) Martina Pokorná et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Evolutionary history of novel genes on the tammar wallaby Y chromosome: Implications for sex chromosome evolution

(2011) V. J. Murtagh et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals

(2011) Zhe-Xi Luo et al.   NATURE

Genetic diversity and population structure of the endangered marsupial Sarcophilus harrisii (Tasmanian devil)

(2011) W. Miller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Activity map of the tammar X chromosome shows that marsupial X inactivation is incomplete and escape is stochastic

(2011) Shafagh Al Nadaf et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

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

Genome-wide characterization of centromeric satellites from multiple mammalian genomes

(2010) C. Alkan et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Identification of SOX3 as an XX male sex reversal gene in mice and humans

(2010) Edwina Sutton et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Cytogenetics Meets Phylogenetics: A Review of Karyotype Evolution in Diprotodontian Marsupials

(2010) Michael Westerman et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Are homologies in vertebrate sex determination due to shared ancestry or to limited options?

(2010) Jennifer A Marshall Graves et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Monotreme chromosomes: an introductory review

(2009) Carolyn E. Murtagh et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Unravelling the evolutionary origins of X chromosome inactivation in mammals: insights from marsupials and monotremes

(2009) Janine E. Deakin et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Physical mapping of the elephant X chromosome: conservation of gene order over 105 million years

(2009) Claudia Leticia Rodríguez Delgado et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Conservation of a chromosome arm in two distantly related marsupial species

(2009) A. Mohammadi et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

American marsupials chromosomes: why study them?

(2009) Marta Svartman   GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Molecules, morphology, and ecology indicate a recent, amphibious ancestry for echidnas

(2009) M. J. Phillips et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Analysis of SINE and LINE repeat content of Y chromosomes in the platypus,Ornithorhynchus anatinus

(2009) R. Daniel Kortschak et al.   REPRODUCTION FERTILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

Sex Determination and Sex Chromosome Evolution: Insights from Medaka

(2009) M. Kondo et al.   Sexual Development

Weird Animal Genomes and the Evolution of Vertebrate Sex and Sex Chromosomes

(2008) Jennifer A. Marshall Graves   Annual Review of Genetics

The ZW sex chromosomes of Gekko hokouensis (Gekkonidae, Squamata) represent highly conserved homology with those of avian species

(2008) Aya Kawai et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Physical map of two tammar wallaby chromosomes: A strategy for mapping in non-model mammals

(2008) Janine E. Deakin et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Bird-like sex chromosomes of platypus imply recent origin of mammal sex chromosomes

(2008) F. Veyrunes et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

A Dated Phylogeny of Marsupials Using a Molecular Supermatrix and Multiple Fossil Constraints

(2008) Robin M. D. Beck   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution

(2008) Wesley C. Warren et al.   NATURE