Forty years ago I showed that genes on the inactive X in female mammals are silenced because they are not transcribed into RNA. Sniffy Nature reviewers bounced my paper because "what else could it be?" Well, read our new paper that documents the "else" pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Check out our new paper released today in PNAS. We show that incomplete sex chromosome dosage compensation in the transcriptome is corrected in the proteome! Congrats Nicholas Lister .... Years in the pipeline! UNSW Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

The Epigenetic Time Machine has officially launched! Out today in Nature Communications - our chromatin profiles from century-old FIXED specimens! nature.com/articles/s4146… A game-changer for museums! Dr Erin Hahn (she/her) Dr Marina Alexander Celine Frere Nicola Jackson

And here's our Conversation article that describes our new dosage compensation work theconversation.com/whats-the-secr… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Here is our article in The Conversation that talks about platypus and their funky sex chromosomes! The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand theconversation.com/whats-the-secr…

Females have twice as many copies of some genes as males do – and exactly how different species manage this imbalance has puzzled scientists for decades. Jenny Graves La Trobe University and UNSW theconversation.com/whats-the-secr…

1/2 UNSW geneticists have uncovered how the expression of sex chromosomes is regulated between the sexes of both platypus and chicken. The regulation process in these species "is something we thought was impossible” says A/Prof. Paul Waters (Paul Waters) the study’s research lead.

Stoked our work made it into IFLScience!

Check out the cover art we submitted for our paper on chicken and platypus sex chromosomes!

Our lab group just published this work on the paternal X chromosome in tammar wallabies, and how it is silenced. Congrats to Ash for her first paper, and all our collaborators for putting this together! Paul Waters Laia Marín Gual Aurora Ruiz-Herrera pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Delighted to have our paper out today in PNAS looking at the imprint for marsupial X inactivation. Congrats Ash! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Nicholas Lister Laia Marín Gual Aurora Ruiz-Herrera Andrew Pask Donna Bond @roneilllab Marilyn Renfree UNSW Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences

Happy to see PNASNews highlighting our recent work on imprinted X chromosome inactivation in marsupials 👇 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/it…

Pleased to present "genome assembly for the Australian alpine skink Bassiana duperreyi" biorxiv.org/content/10.110… . High heterozygosity, centromeric satellites of 187 & 199bp, rDNA at ~15kb. Great resource for sex determination and chromosome evolution in skinks and other lizards

We present a near complete genome of the central bearded dragon, Pogona vitticeps - which can change sex when eggs are incubated at higher temps. An exciting resource for those interested in reptiles. Great collaborative effort by all involved! academic.oup.com/gigascience/ar…