TY - JOUR
T1 - Marsupial genetics and genomics
AU - Graves, Jennifer A.Marshall
AU - Westerman, Michael
PY - 2002/10/1
Y1 - 2002/10/1
N2 - Marsupials, the 'other' mammals, are found only in Australasia and the Americas. They are quite different from eutherian ('placental') mammals, as well they might be after 130 million years of separate evolution. They display a unique pattern of mammalian organization and development that is reflected by differences in their genomes. Here, we introduce marsupials as alternative (but not inferior!) mammals and summarize the state of knowledge of marsupial relationships, marsupial chromosomes, maps, genes and genetic regulatory systems. We shamelessly present the case for a Kangaroo Genome Project.
AB - Marsupials, the 'other' mammals, are found only in Australasia and the Americas. They are quite different from eutherian ('placental') mammals, as well they might be after 130 million years of separate evolution. They display a unique pattern of mammalian organization and development that is reflected by differences in their genomes. Here, we introduce marsupials as alternative (but not inferior!) mammals and summarize the state of knowledge of marsupial relationships, marsupial chromosomes, maps, genes and genetic regulatory systems. We shamelessly present the case for a Kangaroo Genome Project.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0036803193&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0168-9525(02)02772-5
DO - 10.1016/S0168-9525(02)02772-5
M3 - Review article
SN - 0168-9525
VL - 18
SP - 517
EP - 521
JO - Trends in Genetics
JF - Trends in Genetics
IS - 10
ER -