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Marsupial genomics meet marsupial reproduction

Jennifer A. Marshall Graves https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6480-7856
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School of Biological Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic. 3164 Australia. Email: j.graves@latrobe.edu.au

Reproduction, Fertility and Development 31(7) 1181-1188 https://doi.org/10.1071/RD18234
Submitted: 21 June 2018  Accepted: 8 October 2018   Published: 28 November 2018

Abstract

We came from very different backgrounds, with different skills and interests. Marilyn Renfree was recognised as ‘a giant of marsupial embryology’; I had spent my working life studying genes and chromosomes. We teamed up out of mutual respect (awe on my side) to form, with Des Cooper, the ARC Centre of Excellence in Kangaroo Genomics. This is the story of how our collaboration came to be, and what it has produced for our knowledge of some of the world’s most remarkable animals.

Additional keywords: gene mapping, genomic imprinting, sex chromosomes, sex determination, X chromosome inactivation.


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