Transcriptomics technologies are the techniques used to study an organism's transcriptome,
the sum of all of its RNA transcripts. The information content of an organism is recorded in …

The iconic Australian marsupial, the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), has suffered dramatic
population declines as a result of habitat loss and fragmentation, disease, vehicle collision …

The koala, the only extant species of the marsupial family Phascolarctidae, is classified as
'vulnerable'due to habitat loss and widespread disease. We sequenced the koala genome …

Summary Antisense Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) guide silencing of established
transposons during germline development, and sense piRNAs drive ping-pong amplification …

A fundamental challenge in resolving evolutionary relationships across the tree of life is to
account for heterogeneity in the evolutionary signal across loci. Studies of marsupial …

Transspecies transmission of retroviruses is a frequent event, and the human
immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) is a well-known example. The gibbon ape leukaemia virus …

Alpha‐amylase exists across taxonomic kingdoms with a deep evolutionary history of gene
duplications that resulted in several α‐amylase paralogs. Copy number variation (CNV) in …

Repeated retroviral infections of vertebrate germlines have made endogenous retroviruses
ubiquitous features of mammalian genomes. However, millions of years of evolution obscure …

Koala populations are currently in rapid decline across Australia, with infectious diseases
being a contributing cause. The koala retrovirus (KoRV) is a gammaretrovirus present in …

Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are proviral sequences that result from colonization of the
host germ line by exogenous retroviruses. The majority of ERVs represent defective …