| Description |
xii, 413 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue / Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe -- Marsupials and modern biology -- Breaking the paradigms -- Ch. 1. Endocrine signals in embryo implantation / John P. Hearn -- Ch. 2. Control of parturition in the marsupial Macropus eugenii / Marilyn B. Renfree, Laura J. Parry and Terry P. Fletcher [and others] -- Ch. 3. Mechanisms of seasonality in marsupials: A comparative view / Lyn A. Hinds and Andrew S.I. Loudon -- Ch. 4. Development of the pouch young from birth to pouch vacation / Peter A. Janssens, Anthony J. Hulbert and Russell V. Baudinette -- Ch. 5. The development of sex differences in behaviour: A marsupial model / Barbara H. Fadem -- Ch. 6. The use of Monodelphis domestica as a model for musculo-skeletal development / Charles W. Archer, Heather Morrison and Michael T. Bayliss [et al.] -- Ch. 7. Genetics of tammar wallabies / Desmond W. Cooper and Louise M. McKenzie -- Ch. 8. Sexual determination and differentiation in the marsupial Macropus eugenii / Geoffrey Shaw, Jenny L. Harry and Deanne J. Whitworth [et al.] -- Ch. 9. Field energetics and water fluxes in marsupials / Brian Green -- Ch. 10. Living slow and dying young: Senescence in marsupials / Andrew Cockburn -- Ch. 11. Reproductive ecology of New World marsupials / John D. Harder and David W. Fleck -- Ch. 12. Digestive and metabolic adaptations of arboreal marsupials for dealing with plant antinutrients and toxins / Steven J. Cork and William J. Foley -- Ch. 13. Reproductive anomalies in the red kangaroo in Central Australia explained by Aboriginal traditional knowledge and ecology / Alan Newsome -- Ch. 14. The laboratory opossum (Monodelphis domestica) in biomedical research / John L. VandeBerg and Edward S. Robinson -- Ch. 15. Ontological wound-healing studies in Monodelphis domestica from birth to adulthood / J.R. Armstrong and M.W.J. Ferguson -- Ch. 16. Antibody transport across the gut of the suckling opossum, Monodelphis domestica / Arthur E. Wild -- Ch. 17. The North American opossum Didelphis virginiana: An important model for mechanistic studies of secretory diarrhoea and fluid-volume homeostasis / William J. Krause, Leonard R. Forte and F. Kent Hamra [et al.] -- Ch. 18. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe and the developmental neurobiology of vision at the Australian National University / Richard Mark -- Ch. 19. Development of somatosensory pathways from the whiskers / Phil M.E. Waite and W. Lee Weller -- Ch. 20. Proteins in plasma, cerebrospinal fluid and brain during postnatal development in marsupials / Katarzyna M. Dziegielewska, Graham W. Knott and Norman R. Saunders -- Ch. 21. Development and developmental plasticity of descending spinal pathways in the North American opossum, Didelphis virginiana / George F. Martin and Xian Ming Wang -- Ch. 22. Marsupials as models for studies of development and regeneration of the central nervous system / Norman R. Saunders |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Notes |
a Also published Sydney, N.S.W. : UNSW Press, 1997 under the title Recent advances in marsupial biology |
| Subject |
Marsupials.
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| Author |
Hinds, L. (Lynette), 1953-
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Saunders, Norman, 1938-
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| LC no. |
98110382 |
| ISBN |
0868403113 |
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