Genomes and conservation genomics tools

Many of these publications are open access or otherwise readily available on the internet for example via ResearchGate.

However, if you would like papers to which you do not have access

please email Paul.Sunnucks@monash.edu /  Alexandra.Pavlova@monash.edu

Genomes and conservation genomic tools - Papers:

Robledo-Ruiz DA, Austin L, Amos JN, Castrejón-Figueroa J, Harley DKP, Magrath MJL, Sunnucks P, and Pavlova A (2023) Easy-to-use R functions to separate reduced-representation genomic datasets into sex-linked and autosomal loci, and conduct sex assignment. Molecular Ecology Resources 

Robledo-Ruiz DA, Gan HM, Kaur P, Dudchenko O, Weisz D, Khan R, Lieberman Aiden E, Osipova E, Hiller M, Morales HE, Magrath MJL, Clarke RH, Sunnucks P, Pavlova A. 2022. Chromosome-length genome assembly and linkage map of a Critically Endangered Australian bird: the helmeted honeyeater.  GigaScience 11.

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Pavlova A, Harrisson KA, Turakulov R, Lee YP, Ingram BA, Gilligan D, Sunnucks P, Gan HM.  2022. Labile sex chromosomes in the Australian freshwater fish family Percichthyidae. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22, 1639-1655. 

Gan HM, Falk S, Morales HE, Austin CM, Sunnucks P, Pavlova A. (2019) Genomic evidence of neo-sex chromosomes in the Eastern Yellow Robin Gigascience 8, 1–10     supplementary material     blog

Robledo-Ruiz DA, Pavlova A, Clarke RH, Magrath MJL, Quin B, Harrisson KA, Gan HM, Low GW, Sunnucks P. (2022) A novel framework for evaluating in-situ breeding management strategies in endangered populations. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22, 239-253.    Video abstract

Austin CM, Tan MH, Harrisson KA, Lee YP, Croft LJ, Sunnucks P, Pavlova A, Gan HM (2017) De novo genome assembly and annotation of Australia's largest freshwater fish, the Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii) from Illumina and Nanopore sequencing reads. Gigascience 6(8)

Sunnucks P & Hales DF (1996) Numerous transposed sequences of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I-II in aphids of the genus Sitobion (Hemiptera: Aphididae). Molecular Biology & Evolution 13: 510-524.