Tammar wallabies

Tammar wallabies (Macropus eugenii) are one of the smaller members of the kangaroo family, making them easy to keep in captivity and study. Typically adult males weigh 6-8 kg, whilst females weigh 5-6 kg. They are seasonal breeders and have a single young a year.

Tammars are a good representative of the marsupial mammals. Because they diverged from the line that led to humans and the common laboratory mammals around 150 million years ago, they make an excellent contrast. They give birth, as do all marsupials, to young at a developmental stage equivalent to an early embryo in humans, and undergo the rest of their development in the pouch. This difference in developmental timing makes them valuable for the study of development and developmental disorders.

Contact

Professor Marilyn Renfree

m.renfree@unimelb.edu.au

School of BioSciences
University of Melbourne
Parkville
Victoria 3010
Australia

Professor Andrew Pask

a.pask@unimelb.edu.au

School of BioSciences
University of Melbourne
Parkville
Victoria 3010
Australia

The following are tools that have been included in WallaBase to use for exploring the tammar wallaby genome and associated information about it.

• JBrowse
  • This is a genome browser that allows for fast visualization of genomic information, it allows users to easily visualize large datasets without the need to upload them. It supports user supplied GFF3, BED, Wiggle, BigWig, BAM, VCF and REST.
• BLAST
  • A tool for identifying areas of local similarity at varying evolutionary distances.
• Galaxy
• WebApollo
  • A tool to annotate the genome in a central location. Please contact us if you are interested in using this feature.

Downloads

Available data can be retrieved from the following sources:

• Genome sequence in fasta format
• Transcriptome
• BioMart

Sequences

• Genomic
• Transcripts
  • By sample
  • By type
• Proteins

Annotations

Download the files used on JBrowse for the current release of the Tammar Wallaby genome (v3).