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Email

axel.newton@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Research Fellow Comparative Genomics
School of BioSciences
Education
Doctorate
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0001-7175-5978

Dr Axel Newton

Research Fellow Comparative Genomics
School of BioSciences

18 Scholarly works
2 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Gonadal sex determination in vertebrates: rethinking established mechanisms
    DOI: 10.1242/dev.204592
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Breeding fat-tailed dunnarts (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) in captivity: Revised practices to minimize stress whilst maintaining considerations of wild biology
    DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.755
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Unearthing the secrets of Australia’s most enigmatic and cryptic mammal, the marsupial mole
    DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado4140
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Resolving the mechanisms underlying epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition of the lateral plate mesoderm
    DOI: 10.1002/dvg.23531
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Embryology of the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata): A marsupial model for comparative mammalian developmental and evolutionary biology
    DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.711
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Heterogeneity in quiescent Müller glia in the uninjured zebrafish retina drive differential responses following photoreceptor ablation
    DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2023.1087136
  • 2023

    Internal Research Grant

    Defining the Unique Stem Cell Biology of Marsupials 
Axel Newton

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2022

    Journal article

    Cell lineage specification and signalling pathway use during development of the lateral plate mesoderm and forelimb mesenchyme
    DOI: 10.1242/dev.200702
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Marsupials and Multi-Omics: Establishing New Comparative Models of Neural Crest Patterning and Craniofacial Development
    DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2022.941168
  • 2021

    Journal article

    Postnatal development in a marsupial model, the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata; Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae)
    DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02506-2
  • 2021

    Journal article

    Ontogenetic origins of cranial convergence between the extinct marsupial thylacine and placental gray wolf
    DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01569-x

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2023

    Internal Research Grant

    Defining the Unique Stem Cell Biology of Marsupials.

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