Dr. Brandon Rodney Menzies

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsGeneral Genetics, Functional Genome Research,Cell Biology,Palaeontology
KeywordsDNA, Evolution, Genome, Population, Ancient

Current contact address

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Heribert HoferLeibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (IZW), Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2010

Programme(s)

2009Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2012Brandon Rodney Menzies, Marilyn B Renfree, Thomas Heider, Frieder Mayer, Thomas B Hildebrandt, Andrew J Pask: Limited genetic diversity preceded extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger. In: PLoS ONE, 2012, 35433
2012Brandon R Menzies, Geoff Shaw, Terrence P Fletcher, Andrew J Pask, Marilyn B Renfree: Maturation of the growth axis in marsupials occurs gradually during post-natal life and over an equivalent developmental stage to eutherian mammals. In: Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 2012, 189-194
2011Marilyn 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 Yih Chew, Brandon R Menzies et al.: Genome sequence of an Australian kangaroo provides insights into the evolution of mammalian reproduction and development. In: Genome Biology, 2011, 414
2011Brandon R Menzies, Andrew J Pask, Marilyn B Renfree: Placental expression of pituitary hormones is an ancestral feature of therian mammals. In: EvoDevo, 2011, 16