[HTML][HTML] Mosquito-borne viruses and non-human vertebrates in Australia: A review

OTW Ong, EB Skinner, BJ Johnson, JM Old - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mosquito-borne viruses are well recognized as a global public health burden amongst
humans, but the effects on non-human vertebrates is rarely reported. Australia, houses a …

A review of complementary mechanisms which protect the developing marsupial pouch young

MJ Edwards, LA Hinds, EM Deane… - Developmental & …, 2012 - Elsevier
Marsupials are born without a functioning adaptive immune system, into a non-sterile
environment where they continue to develop. This review examines the extent of exposure …

Identification of dendritic cells, B cell and T cell subsets in Tasmanian devil lymphoid tissue; evidence for poor immune cell infiltration into devil facial tumors

LJ Howson, KM Morris, T Kobayashi… - The Anatomical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The Tasmanian devil is under threat of extinction due to the transmissible devil facial tumor
disease (DFTD). This fatal tumor is an allograft that does not induce an immune response …

[HTML][HTML] Characterisation of the immune compounds in koala milk using a combined transcriptomic and proteomic approach

KM Morris, D O'Meally, T Zaw, X Song, A Gillett… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Production of milk is a key characteristic of mammals, but the features of lactation vary
greatly between monotreme, marsupial and eutherian mammals. Marsupials have a short …

A histological and immunohistochemical analysis of lymphoid tissues of the Tasmanian devil

A Kreiss, DL Obendorf, S Hemsley… - … Record: Advances in …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Tasmanian devil lymphoid tissues (thymus, spleen, and lymph node) from seven animals,
including pouch young, juvenile, and adult devils, were investigated using histological and …

The development of the immune tissues in marsupial pouch young

CR Borthwick, LJ Young, JM Old - Journal of Morphology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Current knowledge of the development of the marsupial immune system, particularly in the
context of lymphoid tissue development and the appearance of lymphocytes, has been …

Marsupial immunology bounding ahead

K Belov, RD Miller, JM Old… - Australian Journal of …, 2013 - CSIRO Publishing
Marsupial immune responses were previously touted as 'primitive'but we now know that the
marsupial immune system is complex and on par with that of eutherian mammals. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobial protection of marsupial pouch young

Y Cheng, K Belov - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Marsupials diverged from eutherian mammals about 148 million years ago and represent a
unique lineage of mammals with distinctive morphological and reproductive characteristics …

Dietary composition and nutritional outcomes in two marsupials, Sminthopsis macroura and S. crassicaudata

HJ Stannard, BM McAllan, JM Old - Journal of Mammalogy, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Little is known about the specific dietary preferences of many marsupials. We undertook
digestion studies in 2 species of insectivorous marsupials, the stripe-faced dunnart …

Immune-endocrine interactions in marsupials and monotremes

E Peel, K Belov - General and Comparative Endocrinology, 2017 - Elsevier
Interactions between the immune and endocrine systems are not well studied in marsupials
and monotremes. One exception to this is the phenomenon of semelparity, which is well …