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A Phylogeny and Timescale for the Evolution of Pseudocheiridae (Marsupialia: Diprotodontia) in Australia and New Guinea [PDF]

Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2010
PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE (MARSUPIALIA: Diprotodontia) is a family of endemic Australasian arboreal folivores, more commonly known as ringtail possums. Seventeen extant species are grouped into six genera (Pseudocheirus, Pseudochirulus, Hemibelideus, Petauroides, Pseudochirops, Petropseudes).
Meredith, Robert., Mendoza, Miguel., Roberts, Karen., Westerman, Michael., Springer, Mark.   +4 more
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Global shifts in mammalian population trends reveal key predictors of virus spillover risk. [PDF]

, 2020
Emerging infectious diseases in humans are frequently caused by pathogens originating from animal hosts, and zoonotic disease outbreaks present a major challenge to global health.
Doyle, Megan M, Evans, Tierra Smiley, Hitchens, Peta L, Johnson, Christine K, Pandit, Pranav S, Rushmore, Julie, Young, Cristin CW   +6 more
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Limb bone scaling in hopping diprotodonts and quadrupedal artiodactyls [PDF]

Bone adaptation is modulated by the timing, direction, rate, and magnitude of mechanical loads. To investigate whether frequent slow, or infrequent fast, gaits could dominate bone adaptation to load, we compared scaling of the limb bones from two ...
Chua, M Y, Doube, M, Felder, A A, Hutchinson, J R, Klosowski, M M, Lodhia, K, Shefelbine, S J   +6 more
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Are mutagenic non D-loop direct repeat motifs in mitochondrial DNA under a negative selection pressure? [PDF]

, 2017
Non D-loop direct repeats (DRs) in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have been commonly implicated in the mutagenesis of mtDNA deletions associated with neuromuscular disease and ageing.
Gruber, Jan, Gunawan, Rudiyanto, Halliwell, Barry, Lakshmanan, Lakshmi Narayanan   +3 more
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Adaptive evolution toward larger size in mammals [PDF]

, 2015
The notion that large body size confers some intrinsic advantage to biological species has been debated for centuries. Using a phylogenetic statistical approach that allows the rate of body size evolution to vary across a phylogeny, we find a long-term ...
Alexander, Andrew Meade, Chris Venditti, Gould, Joanna Baker, Mark Pagel   +5 more
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The accelerating influence of humans on mammalian macroecological patterns over the late Quaternary [PDF]

, 2019
The transition of hominins to a largely meat-based diet ~1.8 million years ago led to the exploitation of other mammals for food and resources. As hominins, particularly archaic and modern humans, became increasingly abundant and dispersed across the ...
Elliott Smith, Rosemary E., Lyons, S. Kathleen, Payne, Jonathan L., Smith, Felisa A., Villaseñor, Amelia   +4 more
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A suture in time: The ontogeny of cranial suture morphology in mammals

Journal of Anatomy, Volume 248, Issue 3, Page 501-516, March 2026.
Mammal cranial sutures are important indicators of the biomechanical and developmental pressures acting upon the skull. Across three prominent sutures dividing the vault of the mammalian skull, divergent patterns emerge both taxonomically and developmentally.
Heather E. White, Marco Camaiti, Abigail S. Tucker, Akinobu Watanabe, Anjali Goswami   +4 more
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Cicada as a food for mammals: a global review and implications for mammal behaviour and populations

Wildlife Biology, Volume 2026, Issue 1, January 2026.
Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) are among the most important insect prey for many vertebrate predators, including birds and mammals, owing to their large size and high nutritional value. Although the ecological roles of cicadas as prey for birds have been well documented, the interactions between mammals and cicadas are relatively unknown.
Kanzi M. Tomita
wiley   +1 more source

The Chinchilla Local Fauna: an exceptionally rich and well-preserved Pliocene vertebrate assemblage from fluviatile deposits of south-eastern Queensland, Australia [PDF]

, 2015
The Chinchilla Sand is a formally defined stratigraphic sequence of Pliocene fluviatile deposits that comprise interbedded clays, sands, and conglomerates located in the western Darling Downs, south-east Queensland, Australia.
Louys, Julien, Price, Gilbert
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Family-level relationships among the Australasian marsupial “herbivores” (Diprotodontia: Koala, wombats, kangaroos and possums)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2008
The marsupial order Diprotodontia includes 10 extant families, which occupy all terrestrial habitats across Australia and New Guinea and have evolved remarkable dietary and locomotory diversity. Despite considerable attention, the interrelations of these families have for the most part remained elusive.
Phillips, Matthew, Pratt, Renae
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