Publications

Mikkelsen TS, Wakefield MJ, Belov K, 2007. Genome of the marsupial Monodelphis domestica reveals innovation in non-coding sequences. Nature 447(7141):167-77

Belov K, Sanderson CE, Deakin JE, Wong ES, Assange D, McColl KA, Gout A, 2007. Characterization of the opossum immune genome provides insights into the evolution of the mammalian immune system.
Genome Res. 17(7):982-91

Siddle HV, Sanderson C, Belov K. 2007. Characterization of major histocompatibility complex class I and class II genes from the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii). Immunogenetics. 59(9):753-60

Woods GM, Kreiss A, Belov K, Siddle HV, Obendorf DL, Muller HK
2007. The immune response and Devil Facial Tumour Disease. Ecohealth 4: 338-345

Pyecroft SB, Pearse AM, Loh R, Swift K, Belov K, Fox N, Noonan E, Hayes D. 2007. Towards a case definition for Devil Facial Tumour Disease: What is it? Ecohealth 4:346-351

Siddle HV, Kreiss A, Eldridge MD, Noonan E, Clarke CJ, Pyecroft S, Woods GM, Belov K 2007. Transmission of a fatal clonal tumour by biting occurs due to depleted MHC diversity in a threatened carnivorous marsupial. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 104(41):16221-6

Deakin, J.E., Siddle, H.V., Cross, J.G., Belov, K., Graves J.A. 2007. Class I genes have split from the MHC in the tammar wallaby. Cytogenetics and Genome Research 116:205-211.

Belov, K., Deakin, J.E., Papenfuss, A.T. 2006. Reconstructing an Ancestral Mammalian Immune Supercomplex from a Marsupial MHC. PLoS Biol. Jan 31;4(3):e46

Siddle HV, Deakin JE, Baker ML, Miller RD, Belov K. 2006.
Isolation of major histocompatibility complex Class I genes from the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Immunogenetics 58(5-6):487-93.

Deakin JE, Papenfuss AT, Belov K, Cross JG, 2006. Evolution and comparative analysis of the MHC Class III inflammatory region. BMC Genomics 7(1):281

Wong, E., Young, L.J., Papenfuss, A.T., Belov, K. 2006. In silico identification of opossum cytokine genes suggests the complexity of the marsupial immune system rivals that of eutherian mammals. Immunome Research 10;2:4

Torres, A, Tsampazi, C, Kennett, E, Belov, K, Geraghty, D, Bensal, P, Alewood, P & Kuchel, P. 2006. Mammalian L-to-D-amino-acid-residue isomerase from platypus venom. Amino Acids 32 (1): 63-68

Baker, M.L, Belov, K, Miller, R.D. 2005.Unusually similar patterns of antibody V segment diversity in distantly related marsupials. Journal of Immunology 2005 174(9):5665-71

Miller, H, Belov, K & Daugherty, C. 2005. MHC class I genes in the tuatara (Sphenodon spp.): Evolution of the MHC in an ancient reptilian order. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23 (5): 949-956