Ross et al.

Pharyngula: Evolution of the X chromosome

For an outstanding paper, our PhaWRONGulan thanks goes to:

Ross and Grafham, Coffey, Scherer, Muzny, Platzer, Bird, McLay,
and Burrows, Frankish, Howell, Lovell, Ashurst, Howe and Hodgson A,
and Wen and Scott and Ramser, Deadman, Havlak, Andrews, Hurles and Cree,
and Fulton, Sudbrak, Carter, Jones, and Whittaker, and Gunaratne,
Ansari-Lari, Metzker, Richards, Steffen, Barrett, Errington,
Aradhya, Wheeler, Worley, Ainscough, Barker, Barlow, Hamilton,
Bagguley, Ashwell, Babbage, Beasleys (H and O), and Banerjee;
These folk and more are learned in the letters A, G, C and T.

These folk and more are learned in the letters A, G, C and T.

Continuing with Bethel, Blechschmidt, Gilbert, Glockner, Ambrose K,
Ballabio, and Brady, Burford, Burgess, Ramsey, Ridler, Wray,
Bray-Allen, Burrill, Burton, Bonnin, Matthews, Cobley, Mistry, Clee;
They've helped us see a million years of evolution's history.

Bray-Allen, Burrill, Burton, Bonnin, Matthews, Cobley, Mistry, Clee;
They've helped us see a million years of evolution's history.

There's more that helped, there's Bridgeman, Bruford, Buhay, Steward, Skuce, and Shen,
Clerc-Blankenburg, Chinault, and Carder, Carrel, Chako, Storey, Sodergren,
Ciccodicola, Clifford, Chapman, Chavez, Conquer, Sehra, Swann,
Delgado, and Deshazo, Corby, Connor, Clark, and Clarke, and Khan,
Hernandez, Hennig, Hinzmann, Davies, Davis J, and Davis C,
And Laird, and Lloyd (DM and C), and Williams L, and Williams G,
Nyakatura, Nguyen, Nordsiek, Gribble, Griffiths, Gregory,
All worked to bring us stories of genetic archaeology.

All worked to bring us stories of genetic archaeology.

Let's not forget Trevanion, Tromans, Willard, Wilson, Gill, and Gu,
And Sheridan, and Sotheran, Lozado, Lewis, Lovell, Lu,
Zorilla, Zoghbi, Schueler, Shownkeen, Searle, Shaw-Smith, and Smith, and Zhou,
With Sulston, Scott, and Schlessinger, and Langford, Loveland, Lawlor, Liu,
Hume, Heitmann, Howden, Huckle, Hoffs, and Wilming, Willey, Williamson,
(There's two of them, an A and H), plus Whitehead, Whiteley, Wilkinson,
O'dell, de Jong, and Dunn, and Clegg, the Hunts (AR, PJ, SE);
Smart people who appreciate this life's delightful mystery.

Smart people who appreciate this life's delightful mystery.

There's Emery-Cohen, Evans, Faulkner, Francis, Draper, David R,
Kioschis, Klages, Kelly, Kershaw, Maheshwari, Milne, and Ma,
Steingruber, Palmer, Pandian, and Swarbreck, Pearce, and Dhami P,
All add to X's stable tale (compared with Y's degen'racy).

Steingruber, Palmer, Pandian, and Swarbreck, Pearce, and Dhami P,
All add to X's stable tale (compared with Y's degen'racy).

The list goes on with Waterston, and Dugan-Rocha, Dunham, Dinh,
Loulseged, Ellwood, Fraser, Jones, and Timms, and Thorpe, and West, and Lyne,
And Durbin, Hubbard, Rogers, Bentley, Reinhardt, Poustka, Yen, and Ding,
Patel, and Coulson, Frankland, Vaudin, Taudien, and Mullikin,
Beck, Beck, and Buck, and Beare, the Browns (AJ, MJ), and Wei, and Wang,
McDowall, Dodsworth, d'Urso, Durbin, Dutta, Burch, and Teague, and Zhang,
McMurray, Meidl, Miner, Morgan, Gwilliam, and Galgoczy P,
Have seen some hundred million years of edits in the gene debris.

Have seen some hundred million years of edits in the gene debris.

McLaren, Morris, Parker, Parrish, Pearson, Tracey, Taylor T,
Woodmansey, Rosenthal, and Cole, and Nelson, Weinstock, Johnson D;
They tell us how we regulate for male and female parity
And why our X codes proteins that have manly specificity.

They tell us how we regulate for male and female parity
And why our X codes proteins that have manly specificity.

No, please don't stop; we're nearly done. There's just a few more names to go,
Like Waldron, Warren, Warry, Meindl, Minx, and Eades, and Bates, and Ho,
Then Kosiura, Keenan, Knights, and Meitinger, and Pasternak,
And Isherwood, and Grocock, Jacob, Joseph, Thomas, and Lehrach,
Verduzco, Villasana, Muller, Pelan, Perez, Kovar-Smith,
And Okwuonu (though it's not a name that I'm familiar with)
As well as Leversha, and Bye, and Wall, and Heath, and Hillier,
This "et al." better finish soon before it gets much sillier.

So, (take a deep breath)

We're thanking Porter, Reichwald, Tabor, Hart and Rhodes, and Rice, and Hawes,
Our gratitude extends to all who worked upon this noble cause,
Including all the E and G and R and Y and Z - Chens
Who gave us this X-tended tale of chromosomal sequ-ence.