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Erratum to: Genome sequence of an Australian kangaroo, Macropus eugenii, provides insight into the evolution of mammalian reproduction and development

Marilyn B Renfree, Anthony T Papenfuss, Janine E Deakin, James Lindsay… in Genome Biology (2011)

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Immunome database for marsupials and monotremes

To understand the evolutionary origins of our own immune system, we need to characterise the immune system of our distant relatives, the marsupials and monotremes. The recent sequencing of the genomes of two m...

Emily SW Wong, Anthony T Papenfuss, Katherine Belov in BMC Immunology (2011)

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Transcriptomic analysis supports similar functional roles for the two thymuses of the tammar wallaby

The thymus plays a critical role in the development and maturation of T-cells. Humans have a single thoracic thymus and presence of a second thymus is considered an anomaly. However, many vertebrates have mult...

Emily SW Wong, Anthony T Papenfuss, Andreas Heger, Arthur L Hsu… in BMC Genomics (2011)

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Genome sequence of an Australian kangaroo, Macropus eugenii, provides insight into the evolution of mammalian reproduction and development

We present the genome sequence of the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii, which is a member of the kangaroo family and the first representative of the iconic hop** mammals that symbolize Australia to be sequenced...

Marilyn B Renfree, Anthony T Papenfuss, Janine E Deakin, James Lindsay… in Genome Biology (2011)

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Novel venom gene discovery in the platypus

To date, few peptides in the complex mixture of platypus venom have been identified and sequenced, in part due to the limited amounts of platypus venom available to study. We have constructed and sequenced a c...

Camilla M Whittington, Anthony T Papenfuss, Devin P Locke… in Genome Biology (2010)

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MHC-linked and un-linked class I genes in the wallaby

MHC class I antigens are encoded by a rapidly evolving gene family comprising classical and non-classical genes that are found in all vertebrates and involved in diverse immune functions. However, there is a f...

Hannah V Siddle, Janine E Deakin, Penny Coggill, Elizabeth Hart… in BMC Genomics (2009)

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In silico identification of opossum cytokine genes suggests the complexity of the marsupial immune system rivals that of eutherian mammals

Cytokines are small proteins that regulate immunity in vertebrate species. Marsupial and eutherian mammals last shared a common ancestor more than 180 million years ago, so it is not surprising that attempts t...

Emily SW Wong, Lauren J Young, Anthony T Papenfuss, Katherine Belov in Immunome Research (2006)