Gut microbiota in the short‐beaked echidna (Tachyglossus Aculeatus) shows stability across gestation
MicrobiologyOpen, 2023 Indigenous gut microbial communities (microbiota) play critical roles in health and may be especially important for the mother and fetus during pregnancy.
Isini Buthgamuwa +5 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2022 We reviewed the many discoveries in cell biology, made since the 17th century, which have been based on red blood cells (RBCs). The advances in molecular and structural biology in the past 40 years have enabled the discovery with these cells, most ...
Gheorghe Benga, Gheorghe Benga, Guy Cox
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Ecosystem engineering by digging mammals: effects on soil fertility and condition in Tasmanian temperate woodland [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Many small- and medium-sized mammals dig for their food. This activity potentially affects soil condition and fertility. Digging is well developed especially in Australian mammals, many of which have recently become rare or extinct.
G. T. O. Davies +4 more
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eLife, 2021 The developmental origins and evolutionary histories of cell types, tissues, and organs contribute to the ways in which their dysfunction produces disease.
Mirna Marinić +3 more
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Enigmatic Nodal and Lefty gene repertoire discrepancy: Latent evolutionary history revealed by vertebrate-wide phylogeny. [PDF]
Dev DynAbstract Homology in vertebrate body plans is traditionally ascribed to the high‐level conservation of regulatory components within the genetic programs governing them, particularly during the “phylotypic stage.” However, advancements in embryology and molecular phylogeny have unveiled the dynamic nature of gene repertoires responsible for early ...
Kuraku S.
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Pectoral girdle and forelimb musculoskeletal function in the echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus): insights into mammalian locomotor evolution [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Although evolutionary transformation of the pectoral girdle and forelimb appears to have had a profound impact on mammalian locomotor and ecological diversity, both the sequence of anatomical changes and the functional implications remain unclear ...
Sophie Regnault, Stephanie E. Pierce
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Retrotransposon silencing by DNA methylation can drive mammalian genomic imprinting [PDF]
, 2015 Among mammals, only eutherians and marsupials are viviparous and have genomic imprinting that leads to parent-of-origin-specific differential gene expression. We used comparative analysis to investigate the origin of genomic imprinting in mammals. PEG10 (
Alsop, Amber +12 more
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Marsupials and monotremes sort genome treasures from junk [PDF]
, 2016 A recent landmark paper demonstrates the unique contribution of marsupials and monotremes to comparative genome analysis, filling an evolutionary gap between the eutherian mammals (including humans) and more distant vertebrate ...
Graves, Jennifer A M +1 more
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Identification and functional characterization of a novel monotreme- specific antibacterial protein expressed during lactation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Monotremes are the only oviparous mammals and exhibit a fascinating combination of reptilian and mammalian characters. They represent a component of synapsidal reproduction by laying shelled eggs which are incubated outside the mother's body.
Swathi Bisana +6 more
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Darwinian transformation of a 'scarcely nutritious fluid' into milk [PDF]
, 2012 In an early challenge to an aspect of Darwin’s theory of natural selection, Jackson Mivart contended that milk could not have evolved ‘from a scarcely nutritious fluid from an accidentally hypertrophied cutaneous gland’.
Carver, J.A., Holt, C.
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