The Evolution of Marsupial Reproduction
Author | : R. I. Kean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Marsupials |
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Author | : R. I. Kean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Marsupials |
ISBN | : |
Author | : C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1987-01-30 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780521337922 |
The results of this compilation of new research on the reproductive physiology of marsupials reveal much about their patterns of reproduction and evolution in comparison to monotremes and eutherians.
Author | : CSIRO Staff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Medical |
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Collection of papers from a satellite symposium of the Sixth International Theriological Congress held in Sydney in 1993. Topics addressed include comparative structure and function of marsupial spermatazoa, and male-induced oestrus and ovulation in female brush-tailed bettongs. Also provides an overview of development of early cell lineages in marsupial embryos. Includes references.
Author | : Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1987-01-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521252850 |
Marsupials differ from most other mammals in their method of reproduction, in that they have chosen, in an evolutionary sense, to develop lactation rather than placentation for the nurture of their young. The neonate is therefore born with a mixture of advanced and embryonic characters, and yet is readily accessible within the pouch, providing a unique system for the study of the ontogeny of various physiological and endocrinological parameters. Marsupials are therefore ideal animals for research into mammalian reproductive physiology. The results of this exciting new research are summarized in this book by two of the foremost workers in the field. Individual chapters analyse the genetic and hormonal control of sexual differentiation, male and female reproductive structures and their functions, the role of the corpus luteum in the oestrous cycle and pregnancy, the hormonal control of embryonic diapause and the role of the marsupial placenta in the development of the embryo. This book is more than just a straightforward review of marsupial reproduction for its detailed analyses and broad comparative coverage will attract mammalogists and reproductive physiologists with a wide range of research interests.
Author | : Alan F. Dixson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2021-06-03 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1108426182 |
The first detailed account of post-copulatory sexual selection and the evolution of reproduction in mammals.
Author | : C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780643091993 |
In Life of Marsupials, one of the world's leading experts explores the biology and evolution of this unusual group - with their extraordinary diversity of forms around the world - in Australia, New Guinea and South America. -back cover.
Author | : Jennifer A. Marshall Graves |
Publisher | : CSIRO Publishing |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marilyn B. Renfree |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Marsupials |
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Author | : Carey Krajewski |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2024-01-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 148631595X |
The marsupial family Dasyuridae has a history of study extending from 18th century naturalists to the modern genomics era. The Evolution of Dasyurid Marsupials: Systematics and Family History tells the story of dasyurid evolution as it unfolded in the context of changing world views on biodiversity, biotic history and scientific methodology, from its roots in Enlightenment taxonomy to its transformation by the Darwinian and Hennigian revolutions, and then its maturation as statistical phylogenetics and phylogenomics. Research on dasyurids includes every major approach in animal systematics, including some for which few comparable examples exist. It extends beyond the recent consensus on species relationships to include the timing of diversification, historical biogeography and the evolution of key phenotypic traits. This book introduces readers to living and fossil dasyurids, the questions evolutionary biologists have asked about them, the inferential methods used to answer those questions and the implications of those answers for understanding the history of this fascinating marsupial family. It offers a comprehensive synthesis of dasyurid evolutionary biology for students, teachers and researchers in mammalian evolution and marsupial biology.
Author | : Menna Jones |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2003-04-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0643099484 |
Predators with Pouches provides a unique synthesis of current knowledge of the world’s carnivorous marsupials—from Patagonia to New Guinea and North America to Tasmania. Written by 63 experts in each field, the book covers a comprehensive range of disciplines including evolution and systematics, reproductive biology, physiology, ecology, behaviour and conservation. Predators with Pouches reveals the relationships between the American didelphids and the Australian dasyurids, and explores the role of the marsupial fauna in the mammal community. It introduces the geologically oldest marsupials, from the Americas, and examines the fall from former diversity of the larger marsupial carnivores and their convergent evolution with placental forms. The book covers all aspects of carnivorous marsupials, including interesting features of life history, their unique reproduction, the physiological basis for early senescence in semelparous dasyurids, sex ratio variation and juvenile dispersal. It looks at gradients in nutrition—from omnivory to insectivory to carnivory—as well as distributional ecology, social structure and conservation dilemmas.