An emerging consensus in the evolution, phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria)

MDB Eldridge, RMD Beck, DA Croft… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Marsupials and their fossil relatives, which collectively comprise Metatheria, have been of
scientific interest for centuries, with many aspects of their evolution and systematics subject …

Reading the black book: The number, timing, distribution and causes of listed extinctions in Australia

JCZ Woinarski, MF Braby, AA Burbidge, D Coates… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Through collation of global, national and state/territory threatened species lists, we conclude
that 100 Australian endemic species (one protist, 38 vascular plants, ten invertebrates, one …

[HTML][HTML] Craniodental morphology and phylogeny of marsupials

RMD Beck, RS Voss, SA Jansa - Bulletin of the American Museum of …, 2022 - BioOne
The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on
analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many …

Extant and extinct bilby genomes combined with Indigenous knowledge improve conservation of a unique Australian marsupial

CJ Hogg, RJ Edwards, KA Farquharson… - Nature ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Ninu (greater bilby, Macrotis lagotis) are desert-dwelling, culturally and ecologically
important marsupials. In collaboration with Indigenous rangers and conservation managers …

Degrees of population-level susceptibility of Australian terrestrial non-volant mammal species to predation by the introduced red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and feral cat …

JQ Radford, JCZ Woinarski, S Legge… - Wildlife …, 2018 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Over the last 230 years, the Australian terrestrial mammal fauna has suffered a very
high rate of decline and extinction relative to other continents. Predation by the introduced …

Mind the outgroup and bare branches in total-evidence dating: a case study of pimpliform Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae)

T Spasojevic, GR Broad, IE Sääksjärvi… - Systematic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Taxon sampling is a central aspect of phylogenetic study design, but it has received limited
attention in the context of total-evidence dating, a widely used dating approach that directly …

Evolution of marsupial genomes

JE Deakin, RJ O'Neill - Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Marsupial genomes, which are packaged into large chromosomes, provide a powerful
resource for studying the mechanisms of genome evolution. The extensive and valuable …

Conservation biogeography of modern species of Australasian marsupials

JCZ Woinarski, DO Fisher - American and Australasian Marsupials: an …, 2023 - Springer
The diverse and distinctive Australasian marsupial fauna has experienced considerable loss
over the last 200 years. Extinctions of Australasian marsupials have been confined to …

Taxonomic checklist of living American marsupials

D Astúa, JJ Cherem, P Teta - American and Australasian marsupials: an …, 2023 - Springer
An updated checklist for living American marsupial species (orders Didelphimorphia,
Microbiotheria, and Paucituberculata) is presented here. It includes 22 genera and 137 …

Bioturbation by bandicoots facilitates seedling growth by altering soil properties

LE Valentine, KX Ruthrof, R Fisher… - Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Animals that forage for food via bioturbation can alter their habitat, influencing soil turnover,
nutrient cycling and seedling recruitment, effectively acting as ecosystem engineers. Many …