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| Author | : Ken Ashwell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 491 |
| Release | : 2010-10-14 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1139492845 |
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Australian marsupials represent a parallel adaptive radiation to that seen among placental mammals. This great natural experiment has produced a striking array of mammals with structural and behavioural features echoing those seen among primates, rodents, carnivores, edentates and ungulates elsewhere in the world. Many of these adaptations involve profound evolutionary changes in the nervous system, and occurred in isolation from those unfolding among placental mammals. Ashwell provides the first comprehensive review of the scientific literature on the structure and function of the nervous system of Australian marsupials. The book also includes the first comprehensive delineated atlases of brain structure in a representative diprotodont marsupial (the tammar wallaby) and a representative polyprotodont marsupial (the stripe-faced dunnart). For those interested in brain development, the book also provides the first comprehensive delineated atlas of brain development in a diprotodont marsupial (the tammar wallaby) during the critical first 4 weeks of pouch life.
| Author | : Ken W. S. Ashwell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 9780511905636 |
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"Australian marsupials represent a parallel adaptive radiation to that seen among placental mammals. This great natural experiment has produced a striking array of mammals with structural and behavioural features echoing those seen among primates, rodents, carnivores, edentates and ungulates elsewhere in the world. Many of these adaptations involve profound evolutionary changes in the nervous system, and occurred in isolation from those unfolding among placental mammals. Ashwell provides the first comprehensive review of the scientific literature on the structure and function of the nervous system of Australian marsupials. The book also includes the first comprehensive delineated atlases of brain structure in a representative diprotodont marsupial (the tammar wallaby) and a representative polyprotodont marsupial (the stripe-faced dunnart). For those interested in brain development, the book also provides the first comprehensive delineated atlas of brain development in a diprotodont marsupial (the tammar wallaby) during the critical first 4 weeks of pouch life"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Lindsay Aitkin |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 123 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 3642587399 |
Download Hearing — the Brain and Auditory Communication in Marsupials Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This monograph evolved from years of research into the auditory pathway and hearing of many species of marsupials. Its function is to give biologists, in par ticular neurobiologists, a broad description and review of what is known of the auditory sensory capacities and processing mechanisms in this large order of mammals. My initial interest in marsupials developed from collaborative work with Dr. Richard Gates at Monash and Melbourne Universities in the 1970s and by curiosity as to whether concepts about the auditory system was stimulated stemming from experiments mainly on domestic cats could be extended to mam mals of other orders. My subsequent interest in Australian marsupials, aroused by collaboration with Dr. John Nelson at Monash University in the 1980s and 1990s, concerned their auditory systems and behavior per se and not as primitive cousins of eutherians. More recently, I have collaborated with Dr. Bruce Masterton at Florida State University in studies of New World marsupials. His sad death in 1996 has robbed neurobiologists of one of our most provocative thinkers and hypothesis testers. I would like to thank the Department of Physiology at Monash University for making many facilities available to me, the National Health and Medical Research of Australia and the Australian Research Council for providing funds for Council research, and Jill Poynton and Michelle Mulholland, who illustrated this volume.
| Author | : Don II Hunsaker |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 556 |
| Release | : 2012-12-02 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0323146201 |
Download The Biology of Marsupials Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Biology of Marsupials is a compilation and analysis of the research conducted on New World marsupials that covers both Australian and didelphid marsupials. It is organized into nine chapters that aim to bring scientific community the information available on certain aspects of marsupial biology. After presenting data on karyotypes, comparative serology, classification, and phylogenetic inferences of marsupials, this book goes on discussing the organism's chromosomes, cell cycles, and cytogenetics. A chapter covers the ecological strategies and adaptations of marsupial family, particularly, of the Didelphis virginiana. Another chapter discusses marsupial neurology; evidence of commonalities with eutherian nervous systems; distinctive features peculiar to the marsupial subclass; and neural specialization identification of particular genera and species in this subclass. The following chapter describes the plasticity, variability, and generability of the behavior patterns of marsupials. This book also describes the anatomy and histologic, embryologic, and gerontologic observations of Marmosa robinsoni. The concluding chapters discuss diseases of both American and Australasian marsupials based on zoological, wildlife, parasitological, and veterinary medical studies. Supplemental texts are also provided. This book is ideal for researchers in the fields of developmental anatomy, immunology, neurology, and many aspects of comparative medicine and behavior.
| Author | : Norman Saunders |
| Publisher | : UNSW Press |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780868403113 |
Download Marsupial Biology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Marsupial Biology developed from contributions commissioned from those attending an international symposium held in honour of Hugh Tyndale Biscoe, Australia's most celebrated marsupial biology authority and co-author of the previous leading marsupial biology text published more than 15 years ago. The book does not comprise papers of narrow focus read at the symposium, but chapters reviewing the knowledge in each key area, written to a book format. It has been tightly edited to ensure a great degree of harmony and is suitable as a comprehensive reference text for graduate and undergraduate students.
| Author | : Ken Ashwell |
| Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
| Total Pages | : 626 |
| Release | : 2013-12-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0643103163 |
Download Neurobiology of Monotremes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Neurobiology of Monotremes brings together current information on the development, structure, function and behavioural ecology of the monotremes. The monotremes are an unusual and evolutionarily important group of mammals showing striking behavioural and physiological adaptations to their niches. They are the only mammals exhibiting electroreception (in the trigeminal sensory pathways) and the echidna shows distinctive olfactory specialisations. The authors aim to close the current gap in knowledge between the genes and developmental biology of monotremes on the one hand, and the adult structure, function and ecology of monotremes on the other. They explore how the sequence 'embryonic structure › adult structure › behaviour' is achieved in monotremes and how this differs from other mammals. The work also combines a detailed review of the neurobiology of monotremes with photographic and diagrammatic atlases of the sectioned adult brains and peripheral nervous system of the short-beaked echidna and platypus. Pairing of a detailed review of the field with the first published brain atlases of two of the three living monotremes will allow the reader to immediately relate key points in the text to features in the atlases and will extend a universal system of brain nomenclature developed in eutherian brain atlases by G Paxinos and colleagues to monotremes.
| Author | : Linda L. Thomas |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Brain |
| ISBN | : |
Download A Study of Endocranial Cast Use Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Bernard Stonehouse |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe |
| Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
| Total Pages | : 465 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0643062572 |
Download Life of Marsupials Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 1987-01-30 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780521337922 |
Download Reproductive Physiology of Marsupials Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
