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; Thomas Heider; Katherine Belov; Willem Rens; Paul D Waters; Elizabeth A Pharo; Geoff Shaw; Emily SW Wong; Christophe M Lefèvre; Kevin R Nicholas; Yoko Kuroki; Matthew J Wakefield; Kyall R Zenger; Chenwei Wang; Malcolm Ferguson-Smith; Frank W Nicholas; Danielle Hickford; Hongshi Yu; Kirsty R Short; Hannah V Siddle; Stephen R Frankenberg; Keng Y Chew; Brandon R Menzies; Jessica M Stringer; Shunsuke Suzuki; Timothy A Hore; Margaret L Delbridge; Hardip Patel; Amir Mohammadi; Nanette Y Schneider; Yanqiu Hu; William O'Hara; Shafagh Al Nadaf; Chen Wu; Zhi-Ping Feng; Benjamin G Cocks; Jianghui Wang; Paul Flicek; Stephen MJ Searle; Susan Fairley; Kathryn Beal; Javier Herrero; Dawn M Carone; Yutaka Suzuki; Sumio Sugano; Atsushi Toyoda; Yoshiyuki Sakaki; Shinji Kondo; Yuichiro Nishida; Shoji Tatsumoto; Ion Mandiou; Arthur Hsu; Kaighin A McColl; Benjamin Lansdell; George Weinstock; Elizabeth Kuczek; Annette McGrath; Peter Wilson; Artem Men; Mehlika Hazar-Rethinam; Allison Hall; John Davis; David Wood; Sarah Williams; Yogi Sundaravadanam; Donna M Muzny; Shalini N Jhangiani; Lora R Lewis; Margaret B Morgan; Geoffrey O Okwuonu; San J Ruiz; Jireh Santibanez; Lynne Nazareth; Andrew Cree; Gerald Fowler; Christie L Kovar; Huyen H Dinh; Vandita Joshi; Chyn Jing; Fremiet Lara; Rebecca Thornton; Lei Chen; Jixin Deng; Yue Liu; Joshua Y Shen; Xing-Zhi Song; Janette Edson; Carmen Troon; Daniel Thomas; Amber Stephens; Lankesha Yapa; Tanya Levchenko; Richard A Gibbs; Desmond W Cooper; Terence P Speed; Asao Fujiyama; Jennifer A M Graves

doi:10.1186/gb-2011-12-12-414

. 2011;12(12):414. doi: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-12-414

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

Marilyn B Renfree ^1,^2,^✉,^#, Anthony T Papenfuss ^1,^4,^3,^✉,^#, Janine E Deakin ^1,⁵, James Lindsay ⁶, Thomas Heider ⁶, Katherine Belov ^1,⁷, Willem Rens ⁸, Paul D Waters ^1,⁵, Elizabeth A Pharo ², Geoff Shaw ^1,², Emily SW Wong ^1,⁷, Christophe M Lefèvre ⁹, Kevin R Nicholas ⁹, Yoko Kuroki ¹⁰, Matthew J Wakefield ^1,³, Kyall R Zenger ^1,^11,⁷, Chenwei Wang ^1,⁷, Malcolm Ferguson-Smith ⁸, Frank W Nicholas ⁷, Danielle Hickford ^1,², Hongshi Yu ^1,², Kirsty R Short ¹², Hannah V Siddle ^1,⁷, Stephen R Frankenberg ^1,², Keng Y Chew ^1,², Brandon R Menzies ^1,^13,², Jessica M Stringer ^1,², Shunsuke Suzuki ^1,², Timothy A Hore ^1,¹⁴, Margaret L Delbridge ^1,⁵, Hardip Patel ^1,⁵, Amir Mohammadi ^1,⁵, Nanette Y Schneider ^1,^2,¹⁵, Yanqiu Hu ^1,², William O'Hara ⁶, Shafagh Al Nadaf ^1,⁵, Chen Wu ⁷, Zhi-Ping Feng ^16,³, Benjamin G Cocks ¹⁷, Jianghui Wang ¹⁷, Paul Flicek ¹⁸, Stephen MJ Searle ¹⁹, Susan Fairley ¹⁹, Kathryn Beal ¹⁸, Javier Herrero ¹⁸, Dawn M Carone ^6,²⁰, Yutaka Suzuki ²¹, Sumio Sugano ²¹, Atsushi Toyoda ²², Yoshiyuki Sakaki ¹⁰, Shinji Kondo ¹⁰, Yuichiro Nishida ¹⁰, Shoji Tatsumoto ¹⁰, Ion Mandiou ²³, Arthur Hsu ^16,³, Kaighin A McColl ³, Benjamin Lansdell ³, George Weinstock ²⁴, Elizabeth Kuczek ^1,^26,²⁵, Annette McGrath ²⁵, Peter Wilson ²⁵, Artem Men ²⁵, Mehlika Hazar-Rethinam ²⁵, Allison Hall ²⁵, John Davis ²⁵, David Wood ²⁵, Sarah Williams ²⁵, Yogi Sundaravadanam ²⁵, Donna M Muzny ²⁴, Shalini N Jhangiani ²⁴, Lora R Lewis ²⁴, Margaret B Morgan ²⁴, Geoffrey O Okwuonu ²⁴, San J Ruiz ²⁴, Jireh Santibanez ²⁴, Lynne Nazareth ²⁴, Andrew Cree ²⁴, Gerald Fowler ²⁴, Christie L Kovar ²⁴, Huyen H Dinh ²⁴, Vandita Joshi ²⁴, Chyn Jing ²⁴, Fremiet Lara ²⁴, Rebecca Thornton ²⁴, Lei Chen ²⁴, Jixin Deng ²⁴, Yue Liu ²⁴, Joshua Y Shen ²⁴, Xing-Zhi Song ²⁴, Janette Edson ²⁵, Carmen Troon ²⁵, Daniel Thomas ²⁵, Amber Stephens ²⁵, Lankesha Yapa ²⁵, Tanya Levchenko ²⁵, Richard A Gibbs ²⁴, Desmond W Cooper ^1,²⁸, Terence P Speed ^1,³, Asao Fujiyama ^22,²⁷, Jennifer A M Graves ^1,⁵, Rachel J O'Neill ⁶, Andrew J Pask ^6,^1,², Susan M Forrest ^1,²⁵, Kim C Worley ²⁴

¹The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Kangaroo Genomics, Australia

²Department of Zoology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

³Bioinformatics Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia

⁴Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

⁵Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia

⁶Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Center for Applied Genetics and Technology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA

⁷Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

⁸Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Rd, Cambridge, CB3 0ES, UK

⁹Institute for Technology Research and Innovation, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, 3214, Australia

¹⁰RIKEN Institute, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan

¹¹School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia

¹²Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

¹³Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17, Berlin 10315, Germany

¹⁴Laboratory of Developmental Genetics and Imprinting, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, CB22 3AT, UK

¹⁵Department of Molecular Genetics, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Arthur-Scheunert-Allee 114-116, 14558 Nuthetal, Germany

¹⁶Department of Medical Biology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

¹⁷Biosciences Research Division, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria, 1 Park Drive, Bundoora 3083, Australia

¹⁸European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK

¹⁹Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK

²⁰Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA

²¹Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8560, Japan

²²National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan

²³Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA

²⁴Human Genome Sequencing Center, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA

²⁵Australian Genome Research Facility, Melbourne, Victoria, 3052 and the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia

²⁶Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales 2145, Australia

²⁷National Institute of Informatics, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan

²⁸Department of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

^✉

Corresponding author.

^#

Contributed equally.

PMCID: PMC3334613

Correction

While compiling the article describing the genome sequence of the tammar wallaby [1] one of the authors was inadvertently omitted from the author list. This author, Hardip Patel, has been included in the corrected author list above.

Contributor Information

Marilyn B Renfree, Email: m.renfree@unimelb.edu.au.

Anthony T Papenfuss, Email: papenfuss@wehi.edu.au.

Janine E Deakin, Email: Janine.Deakin@anu.edu.au.

James Lindsay, Email: james.lindsay@engr.uconn.edu.

Thomas Heider, Email: tnheider.uconn@gmail.com.

Katherine Belov, Email: kathy.belov@sydney.edu.au.

Willem Rens, Email: wr203@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk.

Paul D Waters, Email: paul.waters@anu.edu.au.

Elizabeth A Pharo, Email: epharo@unimelb.edu.au.

Geoff Shaw, Email: g.shaw@unimelb.edu.au.

Emily SW Wong, Email: emily.wong@sydney.edu.au.

Christophe M Lefèvre, Email: christophe.lefevre@deakin.edu.au.

Kevin R Nicholas, Email: frank.nicholas@sydney.edu.au.

Yoko Kuroki, Email: kuroki@gsc.riken.jp.

Matthew J Wakefield, Email: wakefield@wehi.edu.au.

Kyall R Zenger, Email: kyall.zenger@jcu.edu.au.

Chenwei Wang, Email: chenwei.wang@imb.uq.edu.au.

Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, Email: maf12@cam.ac.uk.

Frank W Nicholas, Email: frank.nicholas@sydney.edu.au.

Danielle Hickford, Email: hickford@unimelb.edu.au.

Hongshi Yu, Email: hongshiy@unimelb.edu.au.

Kirsty R Short, Email: kirsty_short@yahoo.com.

Hannah V Siddle, Email: hannah.siddle@sydney.edu.au.

Stephen R Frankenberg, Email: srfr@unimelb.edu.au.

Keng Y Chew, Email: kengyih@gmail.com.

Brandon R Menzies, Email: menzies@izw-berlin.de.

Jessica M Stringer, Email: j.stringer@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au.

Shunsuke Suzuki, Email: ssuzuki@unimelb.edu.au.

Timothy A Hore, Email: tim.hore@bbsrc.ac.uk.

Margaret L Delbridge, Email: margaret.delbridge@anu.edu.au.

Hardip Patel, Email: hardip.patel@anu.edu.au.

Amir Mohammadi, Email: amir.mohammadi@anu.edu.au.

Nanette Y Schneider, Email: nanette@finistere-virtuell.de.

Yanqiu Hu, Email: y.hu@zoology.unimelb.edu.au.

William O'Hara, Email: william.ohara@uconn.edu.

Shafagh Al Nadaf, Email: Shafagh.AlNadaf@anu.edu.au.

Chen Wu, Email: chen.wu@sydney.edu.au.

Zhi-Ping Feng, Email: Feng@wehi.edu.au.

Benjamin G Cocks, Email: Ben.Cocks@dpi.vic.gov.au.

Jianghui Wang, Email: Jianghui.Wang@dpi.vic.gov.au.

Paul Flicek, Email: flicek@ebi.ac.uk.

Stephen MJ Searle, Email: searle@sanger.ac.uk.

Susan Fairley, Email: sf7@sanger.ac.uk.

Kathryn Beal, Email: kbeal@ebi.ac.uk.

Javier Herrero, Email: jherrero@ebi.ac.uk.

Dawn M Carone, Email: dawn.carone@umassmed.edu.

Yutaka Suzuki, Email: ysuzuki@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

Sumio Sugano, Email: ssugano@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

Atsushi Toyoda, Email: atoyoda@lab.nig.ac.jp.

Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Email: sakaki@tut.ac.jp.

Shinji Kondo, Email: kondo@gsc.riken.jp.

Yuichiro Nishida, Email: ynishida@med.tohoku.ac.jp.

Shoji Tatsumoto, Email: statsumo@lab.nig.ac.jp.

Ion Mandiou, Email: ion@engr.uconn.edu.

Arthur Hsu, Email: hsu@wehi.EDU.AU.

Kaighin A McColl, Email: kaighin@gmail.com.

Benjamin Lansdell, Email: ben.lansdell@gmail.com.

George Weinstock, Email: gweinsto@watson.wustl.edu.

Elizabeth Kuczek, Email: elizabeth.kuczek@sydney.edu.au.

Annette McGrath, Email: annette.mcgrath@csiro.au.

Peter Wilson, Email: p.wilson@imb.uq.edu.au.

Artem Men, Email: artem.men@agrf.org.au.

Mehlika Hazar-Rethinam, Email: m.rethinam@uq.edu.au.

Allison Hall, Email: allisonh@geneworks.com.au.

John Davis, Email: john.davis@lifetech.com.

David Wood, Email: d.wood@qfab.org.

Sarah Williams, Email: s.williams@qfab.com.

Yogi Sundaravadanam, Email: yogi.sundaravadanam@agrf.org.au.

Donna M Muzny, Email: donnam@bcm.edu.

Shalini N Jhangiani, Email: jhangian@bcm.edu.

Lora R Lewis, Email: lpampell@bcm.edu.

Margaret B Morgan, Email: mmorgan@bcm.edu.

Geoffrey O Okwuonu, Email: gokwuonu@bcm.edu.

San J Ruiz, Email: sjruiz@bcm.edu.

Jireh Santibanez, Email: jirehs@bcm.edu.

Lynne Nazareth, Email: lynnevn@hotmail.com.

Andrew Cree, Email: agcree@gmail.com.

Gerald Fowler, Email: gfowler@bcm.edu.

Christie L Kovar, Email: ckovar@bcm.edu.

Huyen H Dinh, Email: hdinh@bcm.edu.

Vandita Joshi, Email: joshi@bcm.edu.

Chyn Jing, Email: cjing@bcm.edu.

Fremiet Lara, Email: laraf@bcm.edu.

Rebecca Thornton, Email: rthornto@bcm.edu.

Lei Chen, Email: lchen34@wustl.edu.

Jixin Deng, Email: jdeng@bcm.edu.

Yue Liu, Email: yl131317@bcm.edu.

Joshua Y Shen, Email: joshuashen@gmail.com.

Xing-Zhi Song, Email: xsong@bcm.edu.

Janette Edson, Email: janette.edson@adelaide.edu.au.

Carmen Troon, Email: carmen.troon@agrf.org.au.

Daniel Thomas, Email: daniel.thomas@petermac.org.

Amber Stephens, Email: amber.stephenson@agrf.org.au.

Lankesha Yapa, Email: lankesha.yapa@agrf.org.au.

Tanya Levchenko, Email: tanyalevchenko@hotmail.com.

Richard A Gibbs, Email: agibbs@bcm.edu.

Desmond W Cooper, Email: des.cooper@unsw.edu.au.

Terence P Speed, Email: terry@wehi.EDU.AU.

Asao Fujiyama, Email: afujiyam@nii.ac.jp.

Jennifer A M Graves, Email: jenny.graves@anu.edu.au.

Rachel J O'Neill, Email: rachel.oneill@uconn.edu.

Andrew J Pask, Email: andrew.pask@uconn.edu.

Susan M Forrest, Email: sue.forrest@agrf.org.au.

Kim C Worley, Email: kworley@bcm.edu.

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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

Thomas Heider

Katherine Belov

Willem Rens

Paul D Waters

Elizabeth A Pharo

Geoff Shaw

Emily SW Wong

Christophe M Lefèvre

Kevin R Nicholas

Yoko Kuroki

Matthew J Wakefield

Kyall R Zenger

Chenwei Wang

Malcolm Ferguson-Smith

Frank W Nicholas

Danielle Hickford

Hongshi Yu

Kirsty R Short

Hannah V Siddle

Stephen R Frankenberg

Keng Y Chew

Brandon R Menzies

Jessica M Stringer

Shunsuke Suzuki

Timothy A Hore

Margaret L Delbridge

Hardip Patel

Amir Mohammadi

Nanette Y Schneider

Yanqiu Hu

William O'Hara

Shafagh Al Nadaf

Chen Wu

Zhi-Ping Feng

Benjamin G Cocks

Jianghui Wang

Paul Flicek

Stephen MJ Searle

Susan Fairley

Kathryn Beal

Javier Herrero

Dawn M Carone

Yutaka Suzuki

Sumio Sugano

Atsushi Toyoda

Yoshiyuki Sakaki

Shinji Kondo

Yuichiro Nishida

Shoji Tatsumoto

Ion Mandiou

Arthur Hsu

Kaighin A McColl

Benjamin Lansdell

George Weinstock

Elizabeth Kuczek

Annette McGrath

Peter Wilson

Artem Men

Mehlika Hazar-Rethinam

Allison Hall

John Davis

David Wood

Sarah Williams

Yogi Sundaravadanam

Donna M Muzny

Shalini N Jhangiani

Lora R Lewis

Margaret B Morgan

Geoffrey O Okwuonu

San J Ruiz

Jireh Santibanez

Lynne Nazareth

Andrew Cree

Gerald Fowler