Marsupial phylogenomics

This project is using exon capture sequencing to generate high quality sequence data from all marsupials native to the Australo-Papuan region.

Family-level marsupial phylogeny based on exon capture sequencing data
[figure from David Duchêne’s article in Australasian Science]

Project coordinator:

Mark Eldridge (Australian Museum)

Project collaborators:

David Duchêne (Australian National University)
Simon Ho (University of Sydney)
Matthew Phillips (Queensland University of Technology)

Publications arising from this project

Duchêne DA, Bragg JG, Duchêne S, Neaves LE, Potter S, Moritz C, Johnson R, Ho SYW, and Eldridge MDB (2018): Analysis of Phylogenomic Tree Space Resolves Relationships Among Marsupial Families. Systematic Biology 67 (3): 400–412

Read a summary of this work published in Australasian Science in 2018: What Do Genomes Have To Say About Marsupial History? (pdf available).