The complete mitochondrial genome of the vulnerable Australian crest-tailed mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda) [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021 In this announcement, we report the complete mitogenome of the vulnerable Crest-tailed Mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda) (Krefft, 1867). The mitogenome was 17,085 bp in length and contained 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNA genes, 22 tRNAs and a 1583 bp ...
Jaco D. Zandberg +4 more
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Total evidence phylogeny and evolutionary timescale for Australian faunivorous marsupials (Dasyuromorphia) [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017 Background The order Dasyuromorphia is a diverse radiation of faunivorous marsupials, comprising >80 modern species in Australia and New Guinea. It includes dasyurids, the numbat (the myrmecobiid Myrmecobius fasciatus) and the recently extinct thylacine (
Shimona Kealy, Robin Beck
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Mammals from ‘down under’: a multi-gene species-level phylogeny of marsupial mammals (Mammalia, Metatheria) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Marsupials or metatherians are a group of mammals that are distinct in giving birth to young at early stages of development and in having a prolonged investment in lactation.
Laura J. May-Collado +2 more
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Communications Biology, 2021 Cook, Pask and colleagues describe the ossification of the skull and forelimbs in the developing postnatal fat-tailed dunnart. As one of the most altricial marsupials at birth with a short reproductive cycle and simple lab husbandry, this species is a ...
Laura E. Cook +3 more
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Extreme telomere length dimorphism in the Tasmanian devil and related marsupials suggests parental control of telomere length. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Telomeres, specialised structures that protect chromosome ends, play a critical role in preserving chromosome integrity. Telomere dynamics in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) are of particular interest in light of the emergence of devil facial ...
Hannah S Bender +11 more
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The pre-Pleistocene fossil thylacinids (Dasyuromorphia: Thylacinidae) and the evolutionary context of the modern thylacine [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 The thylacine is popularly used as a classic example of convergent evolution between placental and marsupial mammals. Despite having a fossil history spanning over 20 million years and known since the 1960s, the thylacine is often presented in both ...
Douglass S. Rovinsky +2 more
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New craniodental remains of Thylacinus potens (Dasyuromorphia: Thylacinidae), a carnivorous marsupial from the late Miocene Alcoota Local Fauna of central Australia [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 New craniodental specimens that are referrable to the thylacinid marsupial, Thylacinus potens, are described from the late Miocene Alcoota Local Fauna of the Northern Territory, Australia.
Adam M. Yates
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Expansion of CORE-SINEs in the genome of the Tasmanian devil
BMC Genomics, 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 is
Nilsson Maria A +4 more
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Functional constraints on tooth morphology in carnivorous mammals
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2012 Background The range of potential morphologies resulting from evolution is limited by complex interacting processes, ranging from development to function.
Smits Peter D, Evans Alistair R
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Type specimens of recent mammals in Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Part 1 Monotremata, Didelphimorphia, Dasyuromorphia, Peramelemorphia, Diprotodontia, Afrosoricida, Macroscelidea, Hyracoidea, Proboscidea, Scandentia, Primates, Rodentia (Mammalia) [PDF]
ZooKeysThis is the first part of a catalogue containing all known types in the mammal collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, covering the orders Monotremata to Rodentia in the sequence according to Wilson and Reeder (2005).
Steven van der Mije +2 more
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