Yearlong hibernation in a marsupial mammal

2007 ◽  
Vol 94 (11) ◽  
pp. 941-944 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fritz Geiser
Keyword(s):  
Marsupial Mammal

First combined cladistic analysis of marsupial mammal interrelationships

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 240-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Asher ◽  
Inés Horovitz ◽  
Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
Keyword(s):  
Cladistic Analysis ◽  
Marsupial Mammal

scholarly journals The importance of mammalian torpor for survival in a post-fire landscape

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 20150134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Stawski ◽  
Gerhard Körtner ◽  
Julia Nowack ◽  
Fritz Geiser
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Home Range ◽  
Prescribed Fire ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Physiological Adaptation ◽  
Driving Factor ◽  
Population Changes ◽  
Physiological Adjustments ◽  
Marsupial Mammal

Wildfires have increased in frequency and intensity worldwide with climate change as a main driving factor. While a number of studies have focused on population changes in regard to fires, there are essentially no quantitative data on behavioural and physiological adjustments that are vital for the persistence of individuals during and after fires. Here we show that brown antechinus, a small insectivorous marsupial mammal, (i) endured a prescribed fire in situ , (ii) remained in their scorched home range despite unburned areas nearby, and (iii) substantially increased post-fire torpor use and thus reduced foraging requirements and exposure to predators. Hence, torpor is a physiological adaptation that, although not quantified in this context previously, appears to play a key role in post-fire survival for this and other heterothermic species.

Field Metabolic Rate of a Small Marsupial Mammal, the Honey Possum (Tarsipes rostratus)

1995 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 862 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. A. Nagy ◽  
C. Meienberger ◽  
S. D. Bradshaw ◽  
R. D. Wooller
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Rate ◽  
Field Metabolic Rate ◽  
Honey Possum ◽  
Marsupial Mammal

Disparate Igf1 Expression and Growth in the Fore- and Hind Limbs of a Marsupial Mammal (Monodelphis domestica)

2012 ◽  
Vol 318 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAREN E. SEARS ◽  
ANKIT PATEL ◽  
MERLA HÜBLER ◽  
XIAOYI CAO ◽  
JOHN L. VANDEBERG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Monodelphis Domestica ◽  
Hind Limbs ◽  
Igf1 Expression ◽  
Marsupial Mammal

scholarly journals Oestrogen blocks the nuclear entry of SOX9 in the developing gonad of a marsupial mammal

BMC Biology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J Pask ◽  
Natalie E Calatayud ◽  
Geoff Shaw ◽  
William M Wood ◽  
Marilyn B Renfree
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Entry ◽  
Marsupial Mammal

Marsupial mammal from the Upper Cretaceous North Horn Formation, Central Utah

1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 532-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Cifelli ◽  
Christian De Muizon
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North American ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Lower Incisor ◽  
Mandibular Foramen ◽  
The North ◽  
New Information ◽  
Early Paleocene ◽  
Juvenile Individual ◽  
Marsupial Mammal

Little is known of the non-dinosaurian fauna from the Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) part of the North Horn Formation, despite its biogeographic importance. Herein we describe a new marsupial mammal from the unit, founded on an exceptionally complete specimen of a juvenile individual, and present new information on the incisor region of early marsupials, based on comparison with complete specimens from the early Paleocene of Bolivia. Alphadon eatoni, new species, is the smallest Lancian species of the genus, and departs from a presumed marsupial morphotype in having the second lower incisor enlarged. The species is, however, primitive in lacking a “staggered” pattern to the incisor series and in having a labial mandibular foramen, and in these respects it differs from Paleocene and later marsupials. Poor representation of other taxa precludes meaningful comparison to most other North American Cretaceous marsupials, although Eodelphis, thought to be distantly related, also has an enlarged i2. Although Alphadon is characterized by many primitive features, the relative development of the incisors is not what would be predicted in a morphological antecedent to later Marsupialia.

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