Kangaroo Genome Centre of Excellence

Embryo arrest and reactivation: potential candidates controlling embryonic diapause in the tammar wallaby and mink

Jane C Fenelon, Geoffrey Shaw, Stephen R Frankenberg, Bruce D Murphy, Marilyn B Renfree

2017-04-01

Embryonic diapause is a period of developmental arrest which requires coordination of a molecular cross-talk between the endometri..

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

JA Hetz, BR Menzies, G Shaw, A Rao, IJ Clarke, MB Renfree

2015-08-05

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

Retroviral envelope gene captures and syncytin exaptation for placentation in marsupials

G Cornelis, C Vernochet, Q Carradec, S Souquere, B Mulot, F Catzeflis, MA Nilsson, BR Menzies, MB Renfree, G Pierron, U Zeller, O Heidmann, A Dupressoir, T Heidmann

2015-02-03

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

Everything About Kangaroos

Marilyn B Renfree

2014-09-01

PHENOTYPIC VARIATION IN THE TROPHOBLAST OF THE TAMMAR WALLABY MACROPUS EUGENII

Carolyn Jones, Jeremy Skepper, John Aplin, Marilyn Renfree

2014-09-01

ARX/Arx is expressed in germ cells during spermatogenesis in both marsupial and mouse

H Yu, AJ Pask, Y Hu, G Shaw, MB Renfree

2014-03-01

The X-linked aristaless gene, ARX, is essential for the development of the gonads, forebrain, olfactory bulb, pancreas, and skelet..

Sex-linked and autosomal microsatellites provide new insights into island populations of the tammar wallaby

AJ MacDonald, NN Fitzsimmons, B Chambers, MB Renfree, SD Sarre

2014-03-01

The emerging availability of microsatellite markers from mammalian sex chromosomes provides opportunities to investigate both male..

Heterochrony in the regulation of the developing marsupial limb

KY Chew, G Shaw, H Yu, AJ Pask, MB Renfree

2014-02-01

Background: At birth, marsupial neonates have precociously developed forelimbs. The development of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eu..

Paf receptor expression in the marsupial embryo and endometrium during embryonic diapause

JC Fenelon, G Shaw, C O'Neill, S Frankenberg, MB Renfree

2014-01-01

The control of reactivation from embryonic diapause in the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) involves sequential activation of the..

Post-natal imprinting: Evidence from marsupials

JM Stringer, AJ Pask, G Shaw, MB Renfree

2014-01-01

Genomic imprinting has been identified in therian (eutherian and marsupial) mammals but not in prototherian (monotreme) mammals. I..

Trophoblast specialisations during pregnancy in the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii: A morphological and lectin histochemical study

CJP Jones, JN Skepper, MB Renfree, JD Aplin

2014-01-01

Introduction The tammar wallaby has a short gestation (26.5 days) and vascular modifications to expedite transport during that bri..

Cooperativity of imprinted genes inactivated by acquired chromosome 20q deletions

A Aziz, EJ Baxter, C Edwards, CY Cheong, M Ito, A Bench, R Kelley, Y Silber, PA Beer, K Chng, MB Renfree, K McEwen, D Gray, J Nangalia, GJ Mufti, E Hellstrom-Lindberg, JJ Kiladjian, MF McMullin, PJ Campbell, AC Ferguson-Smith

2013-05-01

Large regions of recurrent genomic loss are common in cancers; however, with a few well-characterized exceptions, how they contrib..

The fetomaternal interface shows vascular hypoglycosylation in the tammar wallaby Macropus eugenii: Comparison with a range of non-mammalian and eutherian placentae

CJP Jones, JD Aplin, MB Renfree

2013-01-01

Introduction: Blood vessel glycosylation at the fetomaternal interface of four near-term specimens of tammar wallaby, Macropus eug..

Proteomics and deep sequencing comparison of seasonally active venom glands in the platypus reveals novel venom peptides and distinct expression profiles

ESW Wong, D Morgenstern, E Mofiz, S Gombert, KM Morris, P Temple-Smith, MB Renfree, CM Whittington, GF King, WC Warren, AT Papenfuss, K Belov

2012-11-01

The platypus is a venomous monotreme. Male platypuses possess a spur on their hind legs that is connected to glands in the pelvic ..