Habitat fragmentation and degradation are important biodiversity change drivers worldwide. Their effects have been described for many animal groups, but little is known about marsupials. We conducted a meta-analysis ...

Newly described marsupial specimens of Judithian (late Campanian) and Lancian (Maastrichtian) age in the western interior of North America (Wyoming to Alberta) have dental morphologies consistent with those expected in ...

Extant marsupials are highly diverse, both morphologically and ecologically. As a key ecological factor, diet has been studied in marsupials at the species level. However, a general lack of phylogenetic integration has ...

The absence of homology between sex chromosomes in marsupials strongly influences their behaviour during male meiosis. The highly differentiated X and Y chromosomes perform a precise and specific meiotic program that ...

AbstractWe have analyzed the internal structure of the brain of the microbiotherian marsupial Dromiciops gliroides and compared it with the brains of American and Australian marsupials. Dromiciops does not have a fasciculus ...

Unlike eutherian males, pairing of the sex chromosomes in marsupial males during the first meiotic prophase is not mediated by a synaptonemal complex. Instead, a specific structure, the dense plate, develops during pachytene ...

The honey possum is the only non-volant mammal to feed exclusively on a diet of nectar and pollen. Like other mammalian and avian nectarivores, previous studies indicated that the honey possum's basal metabolic rate was ...