Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Author "O’Meally, Denis"

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    • Major Histocompatibility Complex Genes Map to Two Chromosomes in an Evolutionarily Ancient Reptile, the Tuatara Sphenodon punctatus 

      Miller, Hilary C.; O’Meally, Denis; Ezaz, Tariq; Amemiya, Chris; Marshall-Graves, Jennifer A.; Edwards, Scott (Genetics Society of America, 2015)
      Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes are a central component of the vertebrate immune system and usually exist in a single genomic region. However, considerable differences in MHC organization and size exist between ...

    • Report from the First Snake Genomics and Integrative Biology Meeting 

      Castoe, Todd A.; Braun, Edward L.; Bronikowski, Anne M.; Cox, Christian L.; Rabosky, Alison R. Davis; de Koning, A.P. Jason; Dobry, Jason; Fujita, Matthew; Giorgianni, Matt W; Hargreaves, Adam; Henkel, Christiaan V.; Mackessy, Stephen P.; O’Meally, Denis; Rokyta, Darin R.; Secor, Stephen M.; Streicher, Jeffrey W.; Wray, Kenneth P.; Yokoyama, Ken D.; Pollock, David D. (Michigan State University, 2012)
      This report summarizes the proceedings of the 1st Snake Genomics and Integrative Biology Meeting held in Vail, CO USA, 5-8 October 2011. The meeting had over twenty registered participants, and was conducted as a single ...

    • Sequence and gene content of a large fragment of a lizard sex chromosome and evaluation of candidate sex differentiating gene R-spondin 1 

      Ezaz, Tariq; Azad, Bhumika; O’Meally, Denis; Young, Matthew J; Matsubara, Kazumi; Edwards, Melanie J; Zhang, Xiuwen; Holleley, Clare E; Deakin, Janine E; Marshall Graves, Jennifer A; Georges, Arthur; Edwards, Scott V; Sarre, Stephen D (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: Scant genomic information from non-avian reptile sex chromosomes is available, and for only a few lizards, several snakes and one turtle species, and it represents only a small fraction of the total sex chromosome ...