Marsupial and monotreme milk—a review of its nutrient and immune properties

HJ Stannard, RD Miller, JM Old - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
All mammals are characterized by the ability of females to produce milk. Marsupial
(metatherian) and monotreme (prototherian) young are born in a highly altricial state and …

[图书][B] Secret lives of carnivorous marsupials

A Baker, C Dickman - 2018 - books.google.com
Most living carnivorous marsupials lead a secretive and solitary existence. From tiny insect
eaters to the formidable Tasmanian Devil, Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials offers rare …

Resting disparity in quoll semelparity: examining the sex-linked behaviours of wild roaming northern quolls (Dasyurus hallucatus) during breeding season

JL Gaschk, K Del Simone… - Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Semelparity is a breeding strategy whereby an individual invests large amounts of resources
into a single breeding season, leading to the death of the individual. Male northern quolls …

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 …

Antimicrobial activity of red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura) serum

OTW Ong, JM Green-Barber, A Kanuri, LJ Young… - … and Infectious Diseases, 2017 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial substances in serum include circulating complement proteins and acute phase
proteins (APPs). We identified gene sequences for APPs, haptoglobin (Hp), C-reactive …

Sequences and expression of pathway-specific complement components in developing red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura)

OTW Ong, LJ Young, JM Old - Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 2016 - Elsevier
Marsupials are born immunologically premature, relying on cells and molecules in maternal
milk for immune protection. Both immunoglobulin and complement proteins have been …

Major histocompatibility complex Class II in the red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura)

EM Hermsen, LJ Young, JM Old - Australian Mammalogy, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
Diversity in major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes can be correlated with the level
of immunological fitness of an individual or group of individuals. This study tested published …

Evaluation of reference genes for gene expression in red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura) liver, lung, small intestine and spleen

OTW Ong, LJ Young, JM Old - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
Background Reference genes serve an important role as an endogenous control/standard
for data normalisation in gene expression studies. Although reference genes have recently …

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 …