Malcolm Ferguson-Smith - Key publications #

• 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).