!!Malcolm Ferguson-Smith - Key publications                      
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*KASAI, F., O'BRIEN, PCM., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA. (2012) Extensive homology of chicken macrochromosomes in the karyotypes of Trachemys scripta elegans and Crocodilus niloticus revealed by chromosome painting despite long divergence times. Cytogenet.Genome Res. 136:303-307. DOI:10.1159/000338111.

*POKORNÁ, M., GIOVANNOTTI, M., KRATOCHVÍL, L., CAPUTO, V., OLMO, E., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA., RENS,W. (2012)  Conservation of chromosomes syntenic with avian autosomes in squamate reptiles revealed by comparative chromosome painting. Chromosoma  121: 409-418.

*FERGUSON-SMITH, MA. (2012) Chromosome homology and evolution in mammals, birds and reptiles: hypothesis on the role of non-coding DNA, in Evolutionary Dynamics of Mammalian Karyotypes, edited by R.Stanyon and A.Graphodatsky.  Cytogenet.Genome Res. 137:88-89

*CHUNG  KANG, H., QUIGLEY, DA., KIM, I-J., WAKABAYASHI, Y., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA., D'ALESSANDRO, M., LANE, EB., AKHURST, RJ., GOUDIE, DR., BALMAIN,A. (2013) Multiple self-healing epithelioma (MSSE): rare variants in an adjacent region of chromosome 9q22.3 to known TGFBR1 mutations suggest a digenic or multilocus etiology.  J. Invest. Dermatol.133: 1907-1910.

*PARISE-MALTEMPI, PP., da SILVA, EL., RENS, W., DEARDEN, F., O'BRIEN, PCM, TRIFONOV, V., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA. (2013) Comparative analysis of sex chromosomes in Leporinus species (Teleostei, Characiformes) using chromosome painting. BMC Genetics 14:60. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/14/60.

*LI, G., DAVIS, BW., RAUDSEPP, T., PEARKS-WILKERSON, A., MASON, VC., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA., O'BRIEN, PCM., MURPHY, WJ. (2013) Comparative analysis of mammalian Y chromosomes illuminates ancestral structure and lineage-specific evolution. Genome Research. 23: 1486-1495; doi:10.1101/gr.154286.112

*TRIFONOV, VA., DEMENTYEVA, PV., LARKIN, DM., O'BRIEN, PCM, PERELMAN, PL., YANG, F., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA., GRAPHODATSKY, AS. (2013) Transcription of a protein-coding gene on B chromosomes of the Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus).  BMC Biology 11:90 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/11/90.
 
*KASAI, F., O'BRIEN, PCM., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA. (2013) The bat genome: GC-biased small chromosomes associated with reduction in genome size. Chromosoma.122: 535-540. DOI 10.1007/s00412-013-0426-9.
 
*KASAI, F., OíBRIEN, PCM., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA. (2013) Afrotheria genome; overestimation of genome size and distinct chromosome GC content revealed by flow karyotyping. Genomics (in press).

*NAGAMACHI, CY., PIECZARKA, JC., MILHOMEN, SSR., BATISTA,JA., O'BRIEN, PCM., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA. (2013). Chromosome painting reveals multiple rearrangements between Gymnotus capenema and Gymnotus carapo (Gymnotidae, Gymnotoformes). Cytogenet.Genome Res. 414:163-168. DOI:10.1159/000354988.

*RIBAS, TFA., RODRIGUES, LRR., NAGAMACHI, CY., GOMES, AJB., BENATHAR, TCM., O’BRIEN, PCM., YANG, F., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA., PIECZARKA, JC. (2013) Two new cytotypes reinforce that Micronycteris hirsuta, Peters 1869 does not represent a monotypic taxon.  BMC Genetics 14:119
 
*RODRIGUES, BS., DE ASSIS, MDL., O’BRIEN, PCM., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA., DE OLIVEIRA, EHC. (2014). Chromosome studies on Coscoroba coscoroba (Aves:Anseriformes) reinforce the Coscoroba-Cereopsis clade.  Bio. J. Linnean Soc. 111:274-279.
 
*KRETSCHMER, R., GUNSKI, RJ., CAMERO, ADELV., FURO, IDEO., O’BRIEN, PCM., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA., de OLIVEIRA, EH. (2014) Molecular cytogenetic characterization of multiple intrachromosomal rearrangements in two representative species of the genus Turdus (Turdidae, Passeriformes). PLoS One :9e103338
 
*LITHGOW PE, O'CONNOR R, SMITH D, FONSEKA G, AL MUTERY A, RATHJE C, FRODSHAM R, O'BRIEN P, KASAI F, FERGUSON-SMITH MA, SKINNER, BM., GRIFFIN, DK. (2014) Novel tools for characterising inter and intra chromosomal rearrangements in avian microchromosomes.  Chromosome Research. 22:85-97.
 
*FERGUSON-SMITH, MA., GOUDIE, DR. (2014) Digenic/multilocus aetiology of multiple self-healing squamous epithelioma (Ferguson-Smith disease): TGFBR1 and a second linked locus. Int J Biochem Cell Biol., http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocel.2014.04.007.
 
*FERGUSON-SMITH, MA., BAVINGTON, LD. (2014). Natural Selection for Genetic Variants in Sport: The Role of Y Chromosome Genes in Elite Female Athletes With 46,XY DSD. Sports Medicine. 44: 1629-1634.  DOI: 10.1007/s40279-014-0249-8.
 
*NIE, W., O’BRIEN, PCM., FU, B., WANG, J., SU, W., BED’HOM, B.,VOLOBUEV, V., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA., YANG, F.  (2014) Karyotype evolution in Accipitridae revealed by multidirectional chromosome painting. BMC Evolutionary Biology. (in press).
 
*SONKSEN, P., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA., BAVINGTON, LD., HOLT, RIG., COWAN, DA., CATLIN, DH., KIDD, B., DAVIS, G., DAVIS, P., EDWARDS, L., TAMAR-MATTIS, A. (2014).  Medical and ethical concerns regarding women with hyperandrogenism and elite sport. J.Clin.Endocrinol. Metab. doi:10.12.10/jc.2014-3206.
 
*DI-NIZO, CN., VENTURA, K.,  FERGUSON-SMITH, MA., O’BRIEN, PCM., YONENAGA-YASSUDA, Y., SILVA, NJJ. (2015). Comparative chromosome painting in six species of Oligoryzomys (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) and the karyotype evolution of the genus.  PLoS One (in press).

*KRETSCHMER, R., de OLIVEIRA, EHC., dos SANTOS, MS., FURO, IO., O’BRIEN, PCM., FERGUSON-SMITH, MA., GARNERO, AV., GUNSKI, RJ. (2015). Chromosome mapping of the large Elaenia (Elaenia spectabilis): evidence for a cytogenetic signature for passeriform birds.  Bio. J. Linnean Soc. (in press).
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