Dyneins are large minus-end-directed microtubule motors. Each dynein contains at least one dynein heavy chain (DHC) and a variable number of intermediate chains (IC), light intermediate chains (LIC) and light chains (LC). Here, we used genome sequence data from 24 diverse eukaryotes to assess the distribution of DHCs, ICs, LICs and LCs across Eukaryota. Phylogenetic inference identified nine DH...

Using the Households, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, this study examines the joint dynamics of health and poverty of Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a better estimation of the causal relation between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality runs both ways and the relationship could ...

In Thomson, Hanson and McLanahan (1994), we investigated the relative importance of two types of parental resources – time and money – for explaining the association between family structure and children’s academic and socioemotional development. Family structure was classified as married-parent, stepparent, cohabiting parent, divorced-mother and nevermarried mother families. The primary innova...

The gender of the household head has often been treated as an exogenous determinant of housing tenure. We argue that several determinants of homeownership also affect household headship and that failing to explicitly account for this endogeneity leads to inconsistent results. Using individual level data for Chile, Honduras and Nicaragua we show that although on average women have lower probabil...

There is a variety of families headed by a lesbian or gay male parent or same-sex couple. Findings from research suggest that children with lesbian or gay parents are comparable with children with heterosexual parents on key psychosocial developmental outcomes. In many ways, children of lesbian or gay parents have similar experiences of family life compared with children in heterosexual familie...