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

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

2015-08-15

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

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

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

Post-natal imprinting: evidence from marsupials

JM Stringer, AJ Pask, G Shaw, MB Renfree

2014-08-01

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

2014-07-01

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

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

Hongshi Yu, Andrew J Pask, Yanqiu Hu, Geoff Shaw, Marilyn B 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

Keng Yih Chew, Geoffrey Shaw, Hongshi Yu, Andrew J Pask, Marilyn B 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

Jane C Fenelon, Geoff Shaw, Chris O'Neill, Stephen Frankenberg, Marilyn B Renfree

2014-01-01

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

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

2013-10-01

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

Cooperativity of imprinted genes inactivated by acquired chromosome 20q deletions

Athar Aziz, E Joanna Baxter, Carol Edwards, Clara Yujing Cheong, Mitsuteru Ito, Anthony Bench, Rebecca Kelley, Yvonne Silber, Philip A Beer, Keefe Chng, Marilyn B Renfree, Kirsten McEwen, Dionne Gray, Jyoti Nangalia, Ghulam J Mufti, Eva Hellstrom-Lindberg, Jean-Jacques Kiladjian, Mary Frances McMullin, Peter J Campbell, Anne C 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..

Proteomics and Deep Sequencing Comparison of Seasonally Active Venom Glands in the Platypus Reveals Novel Venom Peptides and Distinct Expression Profiles

Emily SW Wong, David Morgenstern, Ehtesham Mofiz, Sara Gombert, Katrina M Morris, Peter Temple-Smith, Marilyn B Renfree, Camilla M Whittington, Glenn F King, Wesley C Warren, Anthony T Papenfuss, Katherine 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 ..