Marilyn Renfree

ANCESTRAL, CONSERVED AND NOVEL MECHANISMS IN MARSUPIAL GENOMIC IMPRINTING

Genomic imprinting is the differential expression pattern of some genes depending on whether the gene copy came from the mother or the fathe..

2020 - 2024

Inflammation as an early form of maternal-fetal signalling in pregnancy

2020 - 2023

INFLAMMATION AS AN EARLY FORM OF MATERNAL-FETAL SIGNALLING IN PREGNANCY

The project aims to understand the role of inflammatory signalling in marsupial pregnancy. This project is expected to explain why inflammat..

2020 - 2023

BREEDING ECHIDNAS IN CAPTIVITY

This project aims to provide novel insights into the cryptic and secretive mode of the reproduction of echidnas, and enable development of r..

2017 - 2022

ENDOCRINE CONTROL OF CELL FATE IN THE GONAD

Disorders of sexual development are amongst the most common birth defects in humans. These conditions have profound consequences for the phy..

2018 - 2021

HORMONAL RESPONSIVE CODING AND NON-CODING GENES IN PENILE DIFFERENTIATION AND HYPOSPADIAS

Hypospadias, a failure of the correct formation of the penis, is the second-most common birth defect, occurring in around 1% of boys. It cau..

2018 - 2021

BREEDING ECHIDNAS IN CAPTIVITY

This project aims to provide novel insights into the cryptic and secretive mode of the reproduction of echidnas, and enable development of r..

2017 - 2021

Memorandum of Understanding between The University of Melbourne, Australia and the National Institute of Genetics, Japan

2015 - 2020

Developing the Dunnart as a Model Species for Marsupial Research

The project aims to develop a marsupial model capable of genome manipulations to take our understanding of marsupial biology to the next lev..

2016 - 2019

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

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Scholarly Works

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Conserved H3K27me3-associated chromatin remodelling allows STRA8 but not MEIOSIN expression in mammalian germ cells.

Teruhito Ishihara, Jane C Fenelon, Oliver W Griffith, Kei-Ichiro Ishiguro, Marilyn B Renfree

Journal article | 2023 | Reproduction

In the mouse, the timing of meiosis onset differs between sexes due to the sex-specific regulation of the meiosis initiation facto..

The swan genome and transcriptome, it is not all black and white.

Anjana C Karawita, Yuanyuan Cheng, Keng Yih Chew, Arjun Challagulla, Robert Kraus, Ralf C Mueller, Marcus ZW Tong, Katina D Hulme, Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Lauren E Steele, Melanie Wu, Julian Sng, Ellesandra Noye, Timothy J Bruxner, Gough G Au, Suzanne Lowther, Julie Blommaert, Alexander Suh, Alexander J McCauley, Parwinder Kaur, et al.

Journal article | 2023 | Genome Biol

BACKGROUND: The Australian black swan (Cygnus atratus) is an iconic species with contrasting plumage to that of the closely relate..

Getting out of a mammalian egg: the egg tooth and caruncle of the echidna

Jane C Fenelon, Abbie Bennetts, Neal Anthwal, Michael Pyne, Stephen D Johnston, Alistair R Evans, Abigail S Tucker, Marilyn B Renfree

Journal article | 2023 | DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

In the echidna, after development in utero, the egg is laid in the pouch and incubated for 10 days. During this time, the fetuses ..

Investigating the utility of using fecal hormone metabolites as a reproductive management tool for captive short-beaked echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus).

Kate J Dutton-Regester, Alice Roser, Haley Meer, Freya A Russell, Michael Pyne, Marilyn B Renfree, Stephen D Johnston, Tamara Keeley

Journal article | 2023 | Gen Comp Endocrinol

This study demonstrates the utility of the analysis of fecal hormone metabolites as a reproductive management tool for captive sho..

Principles of 3D chromosome folding and evolutionary genome reshuffling in mammals.

Lucía Álvarez-González, Cristina Arias-Sardá, Laia Montes-Espuña, Laia Marín-Gual, Covadonga Vara, Nicholas C Lister, Yasmina Cuartero, Francisca Garcia, Janine Deakin, Marilyn B Renfree, Terence J Robinson, Marc A Martí-Renom, Paul D Waters, Marta Farré, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera

Journal article | 2022 | Cell Reports

Studying the similarities and differences in genomic interactions between species provides fertile grounds for determining the evo..

Comparing the potential for maternal-fetal signalling in oviparous and viviparous lizards

Jinglin Wen, Teruhito Ishihara, Marilyn B Renfree, Oliver W Griffith

Journal article | 2022 | PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolution of a placenta requires several steps including changing the timing of reproductive events, facilitating nutrient exc..

Orientation pinwheels in primary visual cortex of a highly visual marsupial

Young Jun Jung, Ali Almasi, Shi H Sun, Molis Yunzab, Shaun L Cloherty, Sebastien H Bauquier, Marilyn Renfree, Hamish Meffin, Michael R Ibbotson

Journal article | 2022 | SCIENCE ADVANCES

Primary visual cortices in many mammalian species exhibit modular and periodic orientation preference maps arranged in pinwheel-li..

Reproductive behaviour before and after oestrus and oviposition in the captive short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus).

Kate J Dutton-Regester, Alice Roser, Haley Meer, Marilyn B Renfree, Clive Phillips, Stephen D Johnston

Journal article | 2022 | Reprod Fertil Dev

CONTEXT: Most of our current knowledge regarding echidna reproductive behaviour is based on qualitative measurements; therefore, i..

Optimizing captive short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) fecal sample identification and hormonal analysis.

Kate J Dutton-Regester, Alice Roser, Haley Meer, Marilyn B Renfree, Stephen D Johnston, Tamara Keeley

Journal article | 2022 | Zoo Biol

The objectives of this study were to develop a fecal marking protocol to distinguish male from female samples during the echidna b..

Placental imprinting of SLC22A3 in the IGF2R imprinted domain is conserved in therian mammals

Teruhito Ishihara, Oliver W Griffith, Shunsuke Suzuki, Marilyn B Renfree

Journal article | 2022 | EPIGENETICS & CHROMATIN

BACKGROUND: The eutherian IGF2R imprinted domain is regulated by an antisense long non-coding RNA, Airn, which is expressed from a..

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Solving the mystery of the four-headed echidna penis

Jane Fenelon, Marilyn Renfree, Stephen Johnston

Monotremes are among the world’s strangest animals, mixing mammalian and reptilian characteristics in the one creature. When British scient..

June 9, 2021

Delving into the DNA of our iconic platypus and echidna

Marilyn Renfree, Jane Fenelon

Monotremes have a mixture of mammalian and reptilian characteristics and are the most distantly related, and least understood group of livi..

January 13, 2021

The wallaby that's permanently pregnant

Brandon Menzies, Thomas Hildebrandt, Marilyn Renfree

Marsupials are notorious reproductive record breakers. They have the largest sperm and the shortest pregnancies among all mammals. They als..

March 2, 2020

Bringing back the northern white rhino from ‘extinction’

Thomas Hildebrandt, Marilyn Renfree

When Sudan, the last surviving male northern white rhino in the world, died in Kenya in March 2018, the species was as good as extinct. The..

July 4, 2018