Proportional variation and scaling in the hindlimbs of hopping mammals, including convergent evolution in argyrolagids and jerboas

ME Jones, K Travouillon, CM Janis - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2024 - Springer
Bipedal hopping is a mode of locomotion seen today in four rodent lineages and one clade
of marsupials. The Argyrolagidae, marsupials from the Oligocene to Pliocene of South …

Identification of the mRNA encoding interleukin-6 and its receptor, interleukin-6 receptor α, in five marsupial species

CR Borthwick, LJ Young, BM McAllan, JM Old - Developmental & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Expressed coding sequences for interleukin-6 (IL-6) and interleukin-6 receptor α (IL-6R)
were examined in five marsupial species. Full length expressed coding sequences for IL-6 …

To bask or not to bask: Behavioural thermoregulation in two species of dasyurid, Phascogale calura and Antechinomys laniger

HJ Stannard, M Fabian, JM Old - Journal of Thermal Biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Torpor is an important physiological process used to reduce body temperature and thus
energy needs in mammals and birds. Rewarming from torpor can be costly. In some small …

Immunosenescence in a captive semelparous marsupial, the red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura)

C Letendre, E Sawyer, LJ Young, JM Old - BMC Zoology, 2018 - Springer
Background The red-tailed phascogale is a 'Near Threatened'dasyurid marsupial. Males are
semelparous and die off shortly after the breeding season in the wild due to a stress-related …

Hearing thresholds of small native Australian mammals–red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura), kultarr (Antechinomys laniger) and spinifex hopping-mouse …

JM Old, C Parsons, ML Tulk - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Hearing is essential for communication, to locate prey and to avoid predators. We addressed
the paucity of information regarding hearing in Australian native mammals by specifically …

The efficacy of morphological and genetic owl pellet analysis compared to live-trapping in arid and semi-arid Australian small mammal monitoring systems

P Schoenefuss - 2023 - eprints.qut.edu.au
Owl pellets as a dietary analysis: can owl vomit act as a viable measure for small mammal
diversity? This project applied a three-tiered comparison to determine the efficacy of owl …

Conservation of quolls (Dasyurus spp.) in captivity–a review

JM Old, HJ Stannard - Australian Mammalogy, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Quolls are carnivorous marsupials in the family Dasyuridae with characteristic white spots.
They are distributed throughout Australia and New Guinea, but uncommonly seen due to …

Corrigendum to: Conservation of quolls (Dasyurus spp.) in captivity–a review

JM Old, HJ Stannard - Australian Mammalogy, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
Quolls are carnivorous marsupials in the family Dasyuridae with characteristic white spots.
They are distributed throughout Australia and New Guinea, but uncommonly seen due to …

Red‐tailed phascogales: A review of their biology and importance as model marsupial species

JM Old, OTW Ong, HJ Stannard - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There are many limitations when using traditional laboratory species. Limits on variation,
may result in limited outcomes, at both the species and individual level, due to different …