Assessing the potential for intraguild predation among taxonomically disparate micro-carnivores: marsupials and arthropods [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Interspecific competition may occur when resources are limited, and is often most intense between animals in the same ecological guild. Intraguild predation (IGP) is a distinctive form of interference competition, where a dominant predator selectively ...
Tamara I. Potter +2 more
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The external ear morphology and presence of tragi in Australian marsupials
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Multiple studies have described the anatomy and function of the external ear (pinna) of bats, and other placental mammals, however, studies of marsupial pinna are largely absent.
Hayley J. Stannard +2 more
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Expansion of CORE-SINEs in the genome of the Tasmanian devil [PDF]
, 2012 Background: The genome of the carnivorous marsupial, the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii, Order: Dasyuromorphia), was sequenced in the hopes of finding a cure for or gaining a better understanding of the contagious devil facial tumor disease that ...
Hallström, Björn M. +4 more
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Ecomorphological determinations in the absence of living analogs:The predatory behavior of the marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) as revealed by elbow joint morphology [PDF]
, 2016 Thylacoleo carnifex, or the “pouched lion” (Mammalia: Marsupialia: Diprotodontia: Thylacoleonidae), was a carnivorous marsupial that inhabited Australia during the Pleistocene.
Alberto Martín-Serra +32 more
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Sexual selection of protamine 1 in mammals [PDF]
, 2015 Protamines have a crucial role in male fertility. They are involved in sperm chromatin packaging and influence the shape of the sperm head and, hence, are important for sperm performance.
Lüke, Lena +2 more
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Macrogeographic Variation in Litter Size in Antechinus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) [PDF]
Evolution, 1983 The best documented cases of geographic variation in brood size are the tendency of avian clutches to increase with latitude (Lack, 1947, 1954; Klomp, 1970), and mammalian litters to increase with both latitude (Lord, 1960), and altitude (Dunmire, 1960; Fleming and Rauscher, 1978; Bronson, 1979).
Andrew, Cockburn +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Theories of dispersal and senescence (or aging) predict that dispersal, and ongoing survival and body condition, are influenced by evolutionary drivers, along with intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
Natasha M. Robinson +5 more
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Temporal and spatial distribution of the Tasmanian Devil, Sarcophilus harrisi (Dasyuridae: Marsupialia) [PDF]
, 1982 The Tasmanian devil Sarcophilus harrisi(Boitard), once widespread on continental Australia, probably became extinct there partly due to food competition with dingoes and, possibly, black man and their extinction may have been expedited by a dry climatic ...
Guiler, ER
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A peculiar faunivorous metatherian from the early Eocene of Australia [PDF]
, 2013 I describe Archaeonothos henkgodthelpi gen. et. sp. nov., a small (estimated body mass ~40-80g) tribosphenic metatherian from the early Eocene Tingamarra Fauna of southeastern Queensland, Australia.
Beck, RMD
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Ecology and Evolution, 2020 The black‐tailed dusky antechinus (Antechinus arktos) is a recently discovered, endangered, carnivorous marsupial mammal endemic to the Tweed Shield Volcano caldera, straddling the border between Queensland and New South Wales in eastern Australia.
Caitlin E. Riordan +4 more
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