Brandon Menzies

Unique reproductive strategy in the swamp wallaby

Brandon R Menzies, Thomas B Hildebrandt, Marilyn B Renfree

Journal article  |  2020  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reproduction in mammals requires distinct cycles of ovulation, fertilization, pregnancy, and lactation often interspersed with per..

The tammar wallaby: a non-traditional animal model to study growth axis maturation

Jennifer A Hetz, Brandon R Menzies, Geoffrey Shaw, Marilyn B Renfree

Journal article  |  2019  |  REPRODUCTION FERTILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

Maturation of the growth hormone (GH)/insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) axis is a critical developmental event that becomes func..

Genome of the Tasmanian tiger provides insights into the evolution and demography of an extinct marsupial carnivore

Charles Y Feigin, Axel H Newton, Liliya Doronina, Juergen Schmitz, Christy A Hipsley, Kieren J Mitchell, Graham Gower, Bastien Llamas, Julien Soubrier, Thomas N Heider, Brandon R Menzies, Alan Cooper, Rachel J O'Neill, Andrew J Pask

Journal article  |  2018  |  NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Tasmanian tiger or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was the largest carnivorous Australian marsupial to survive into the mo..

The Basal Radial Glia Occurs in Marsupials and Underlies the Evolution of an Expanded Neocortex in Therian Mammals

Christine Sauerland, Brandon R Menzies, Megan Glatzle, Johannes Seeger, Marilyn B Renfree, Simone A Fietz

Journal article  |  2018  |  Cerebral Cortex

A hallmark of mammalian brain evolution is the emergence of the neocortex, which has expanded in all mammalian infraclasses (Euthe..

Effects of nutritional manipulation on body composition in the developing marsupial, Macropus eugenii

Jennifer A Hetz, Brandon R Menzies, Geoffrey Shaw, Aneta Stefanidis, Michael A Cowley, Marilyn B Renfree

Journal article  |  2016  |  MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

When 60-day-old tammar wallaby pouch young (Macropus eugenii) are fostered to mothers at 120 days of lactation, their growth, deve..

Growth axis maturation is linked to nutrition, growth and developmental rate

Jennifer A Hetz, Brandon R Menzies, Geoffrey Shaw, Alexandra Rao, Lain J Clarke, Marilyn B Renfree

Journal article  |  2015  |  MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Maturation of the mammalian growth axis is thought to be linked to the transition from fetal to post-natal life at birth. However,..

Characterisation of major histocompatibility complex class I genes at the fetal-maternal interface of marsupials

Ina Buentjen, Barbara Drews, Stephen R Frankenberg, Thomas B Hildebrandt, Marilyn B Renfree, Brandon R Menzies

Journal article  |  2015  |  IMMUNOGENETICS

Major histocompatibility complex class I molecules (MHC-I) are expressed at the cell surface and are responsible for the presentat..

Retroviral envelope gene captures and syncytin exaptation for placentation in marsupials

Guillaume Cornelis, Cecile Vernochet, Quentin Carradec, Sylvie Souquere, Baptiste Mulot, Francois Catzeflis, Maria A Nilsson, Brandon R Menzies, Marilyn B Renfree, Gerard Pierron, Ulrich Zeller, Odile Heidmann, Anne Dupressoir, Thierry Heidmann

Journal article  |  2015  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Syncytins are genes of retroviral origin captured by eutherian mammals, with a role in placentation. Here we show that some marsup..

Ultrasonography of wallaby prenatal development shows that the climb to the pouch begins in utero

Barbara Drews, Kathleen Roellig, Brandon R Menzies, Geoff Shaw, Ina Buentjen, Catherine A Herbert, Thomas B Hildebrandt, Marilyn B Renfree

Journal article  |  2013  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Marsupials have a functional placenta for a shorter period of time compared to that of eutherian species, and their altricial youn..

Maturation of the growth axis in marsupials occurs gradually during post-natal life and over an equivalent developmental stage relative to eutherian species

Brandon R Menzies, Geoffrey Shaw, Terry P Fletcher, Andrew J Pask, Marilyn B Renfree

Journal article  |  2012  |  MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

The separation of a nutrition-responsive insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system and a growth hormone (GH) responsive IGF system t..