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Host Traits Impact the Outcome of Metagenomic Library Preparation From Dental Calculus Samples Across Diverse Mammals

Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume 25, Issue 8, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Dental calculus metagenomics has emerged as a valuable tool for studying the oral microbiomes of humans and a few select mammals. With increasing interest in wild animal microbiomes, it is important to understand how widely this material can be used across the mammalian tree of life, refine the related protocols and understand the expected ...
Markella Moraitou, John L. Richards, Chanah Bolyos, Konstantina Saliari, Emmanuel Gilissen, Zena Timmons, Andrew C. Kitchener, Olivier S. G. Pauwels, Richard Sabin, Phaedra Kokkini, Roberto Portela Miguez, Katerina Guschanski   +11 more
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Brief communication: Hair density and body mass in mammals and the evolution of human hairlessness [PDF]

, 2013
Humans are unusual among mammals in appearing hairless. Several hypotheses propose explanations for this phenotype, but few data are available to test these hypotheses. To elucidate the evolutionary history of human “hairlessness,” a comparative approach
Sandel, Aaron A.
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Order Diprotodontia

, 1993
Colin P. Groves (1993): Order Diprotodontia. In: Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder (Eds): Mammal Species of the World (2nd Edition). Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press: 45-62, ISBN: 1-56098-217-9, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo ...
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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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Phylogenetic relationships of the cuscuses (Diprotodontia : Phalangeridae) of island Southeast Asia and Melanesia based on the mitochondrial ND2 gene [PDF]

Australian Mammalogy, 2019
The species-level systematics of the marsupial family Phalangeridae, particularly Phalanger, are poorly understood, due partly to the family’s wide distribution across Australia, New Guinea, eastern Indonesia, and surrounding islands. In order to refine the species-level systematics of Phalangeridae, and improve our understanding of their evolution, we
Shimona Kealy, Stephen C. Donnellan, Kieren J. Mitchell, Michael Herrera, Ken Aplin, Sue O'Connor, Julien Louys   +6 more
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Endemic fauna of Australia [PDF]

, 2010
Australija je najmanji kontinent, prirodno izoliran od drugih kontinenata te su se zbog toga u Australiji razvile posebne biljne i životinjske vrste.
Sviličić, Maja
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What Are the Phylogenetic Limits to Pollinator Diversity?

Journal of Applied Entomology, Volume 149, Issue 5, Page 697-703, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Although huge progress has been made over the past 200 years in identifying the diversity of pollinators of angiosperms and other plants, new discoveries continue to be made each year, especially in tropical areas and in the fossil record. In this perspective article I address the following questions: Just how diverse are the pollinators and ...
Jeff Ollerton
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Statistical support for the hypothesis of developmental constraint in marsupial skull evolution. [PDF]

, 2013
Background: In contrast to placental neonates, in which all cranial bones are ossified, marsupial young have only the bones of the oral region and the exoccipital ossified at birth, in order to facilitate suckling at an early stage of development.
A Goswami, A Goswami, A Goswami, A Goswami, A Goswami, A Porto, AM Forasiepi, Anjali Goswami, B Van Valkenburgh, C Montes, C Verity Bennett, CL Nunn, CT Clark, DA Flores, DA Flores, DA Flores, DE Wilson, DW Krause, EL Simons, EM Kelly, EM Kelly, F Abdala, FJ Prevosti, H Godthelp, H Nishihara, H Tyndale-Biscoe, I Dryden, JA Lillegraven, JA Lillegraven, JAW Kirsch, JO Kriegs, JR Wible, KD Rose, KE Sears, KK Smith, KK Smith, L Werdelin, L Werdelin, LD Keigwin, LT Shirai, M Dos Reis, M Foote, M Sánchez-Villagra, MA Nilsson, MR Sánchez-Villagra, MR Sánchez-Villagra, MS Springer, N Giannini, O Madsen, P Taylor, PD Polly, PF Barker, R Vullo, RL Cifelli, RMD Beck, RT Gemmell, RW Meredith, S Ladevèze, S Tavaré, S Wroe, SP Zack, T Plate, W Maier, WJ Murphy, WJ Murphy, Z-X Luo, Z-X Luo   +66 more
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Differential predation patterns of free‐ranging cats among continents

Ecography, Volume 2025, Issue 4, April 2025.
Co‐evolutionary relationships associated with biogeographical context mediate the response of native prey to introduced predators, but this effect has not yet been demonstrated for domestic cats. We investigated the main factors influencing the vulnerability of prey species to domestic cat Felis catus predation across Australia, Europe and North ...
Martin Philippe‐Lesaffre, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Irene Castañeda, John Llewelyn, Christopher R. Dickman, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Jean Fantle-Lepczyk, Clara Marino, Franck Courchamp, Elsa Bonnaud   +9 more
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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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