Oliver Griffith

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..

Embryonic specializations for vertebrate placentation

Camilla M Whittington, Alice L Buddle, Oliver W Griffith, Anthony M Carter

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

The vertebrate placenta, a close association of fetal and parental tissue for physiological exchange, has evolved independently in..

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..

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..

Evolution of the Short Form of DNMT3A, DNMT3A2, Occurred in the Common Ancestor of Mammals

Teruhito Ishihara, Danielle Hickford, Jane C Fenelon, Oliver W Griffith, Shunsuke Suzuki, Marilyn B Renfree

Journal article  |  2022  |  GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genomic imprinting is found in marsupial and eutherian mammals, but not in monotremes. While the primary regulator of genomic impr..

Presence of H3K4me3 on Paternally Expressed Genes of the Paternal Genome From Sperm to Implantation

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

Journal article  |  2022  |  FRONTIERS IN CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Genomic imprinting, parent-of-origin-specific gene expression, is controlled by differential epigenetic status of the parental chr..

Hidden limbs in the "limbless skink" Brachymeles lukbani: Developmental observations.

Daniel Smith-Paredes, Oliver Griffith, Matteo Fabbri, Laurel Yohe, Daniel G Blackburn, Cameron D Siler, Bhart-Anjan S Bhullar, Günter P Wagner

Journal article  |  2021  |  J Anat

Reduced limbs and limblessness have evolved independently in many lizard clades. Scincidae exhibit a wide range of limb-reduced mo..

Novel tissue interactions support the evolution of placentation

Oliver W Griffith

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Organ development occurs through the coordinated interaction of distinct tissue types. So, a question at the core of understanding..

Soybean Yellow Stripe-like 7 is a symbiosome membrane peptide transporter important for nitrogen fixation.

Aleksandr Gavrin, Patrick C Loughlin, Ella Brear, Oliver W Griffith, Frank Bedon, Marianne Suter Grotemeyer, Viviana Escudero, Maria Reguera, Yihan Qu, Siti N Mohd-Noor, Chi Chen, Marina Borges Osorio, Doris Rentsch, Manuel González-Guerrero, David A Day, Penelope Mary Collina Smith

Journal article  |  2021  |  Plant Physiol

Legumes form a symbiosis with rhizobia that convert atmospheric nitrogen (N2) to ammonia and provide it to the plant in return for..

Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk

David G Chapple, Uri Roll, Monika Boehm, Rocio Aguilar, Andrew P Amey, Chris C Austin, Marleen Baling, Anthony J Barley, Michael F Bates, Aaron M Bauer, Daniel G Blackburn, Phil Bowles, Rafe M Brown, SR Chandramouli, Laurent Chirio, Hal Cogger, Guarino R Colli, Werner Conradie, Patrick J Couper, Mark A Cowan, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Our knowledge of the conservation status of reptiles, the most diverse class of terrestrial vertebrates, has improved dramatically..