Dr Frank Greutzner

Comparative Genomics Group
Research School of Biological Sciences
GPO Box 475
Canberra ACT 2601
ph: +61 (02) 6125 3612/2371
fax: +61 (02) 6125 4891

email: gruetzner@rsbs.anu.edu.au

Current position

ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, RSBS

Research interests

Chromosome evolution in vertebrates: Main research projects are:

- Evolution of microchromosomes
- Chromosome organisation in mitosis, meiosis and sperm of Platypus and Echidna

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Selected Publications

Grützner, F., Zend-Ajusch, E., Stout, K., Munsche, S., Niveleau, A., Nanda, I., Schmid, M., Haaf, T. 2001. Chicken microchromosomes are hypermethylated and can be identified by specific painting probes. Cytogenetics & Cell Genetics. 93(3-4):265-269.

Toder, R., Grützner, F., Haaf, T., Bausch, E. 2001. Species-specific evolution of repeated DNA sequences in great apes. Chromosome Research. 9(6): 431-435.

Bouchireb, N., Grützner, F., Haaf, T., Stephens, R.J., Elgar, G., Green, A.J., Clark, M.S. 2001. Comparative mapping of the human 9q34 region in Fugu rubripes. Cytogenetics & Cell Genetics. 94 (3-4). 173-179.

Brunner, B., Grützner, F., Yaspo, M.-L., Ropers, H.-H., Haaf, T., Kalscheuer, V. 2000. Molecular cloning and chracterisation of the Fugu rubripes MEST/COPG2 imprinting cluster and chromosomal localization in Fugu and Tetraodon nigroviridis. Chromosome Research. 8: 465-476.

Grützner, F., Himmelbauer, H., Paulsen, M., Ferguson-Smith, M.A., Ropers, H.-H., Haaf, T. 1999. Comparative Mapping of Mouse and Rat Chromosomes by Fluorescence in situ Hybridization. Genomics. 55: 306-313.

Grützner, F., Lütjens, G., Rovira, C., Barnes, D.W., Ropers, H.-H., Haaf, T. 1999. Classical and molecular cytogenetics of the pufferfish Tetraodon nigroviridis. Chromosome Research. 7(8): 655-662.

Römer I., Grützner F., Winking H., Haaf T., Orth A., Skidmore L., Antczak D., Fundele R. 1999. Genome methylation in eutherian hybrids. Nature. 401: 131-132.

Grützner. F., Crollius, H.R., Lutjens, G., Jaillon, O., Weissenbach, J., Ropers, H.H., Haaf, T. 2002. Four-hundred million years of conserved synteny of human Xp and Xq genes on three Tetraodon chromosomes. Genome Research. 12(9):1316-1322.

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