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Further Reading
Deakin JE (2012) Marsupial genome sequences: providing insight into evolution and disease. Scientifica 2012: 543176.
Deakin JE (2017) Implications of monotreme and marsupial chromosome evolution on sex determination and differentiation. General and Comparative Endocrinology 244: 130–138.
Deakin JE (2018) Chromosome evolution in marsupials. Genes 9: 72.
Deakin JE, Koina E, Waters PD, et al. (2008) Physical map of two tammar wallaby chromosomes: a strategy for mapping in non‐model mammals. Chromosome Research 16: 1159–1175.
Graves JA (2015) Weird mammals provide insights into the evolution of mammalian sex chromosomes and dosage compensation. Journal of Genetics 94: 567–574.
Graves JAM (2018) Weird animals, sex, and genome evolution. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences 6: 1–22.
Ingles ED and Deakin JE (2016) Telomere, species differences, and unusual telomeres in vertebrates: presenting challenges and opportunities to understand telomere dynamics. AIMS Genetics 3: 1–24.
Potter S and Deakin JE (2018) Cytogenetics: an important inclusion in the conservation genetics toolbox. Pacific Conservation Biology 24: 280–288.