Monodelphis domestica
Original Article The Laboratory Opossum ( Monodelphis domestica ) as a Natural Mammalian Model for Human Cancer Research
... opossum, Monodelphis domestica (family: Didelphidae), is a small (80-120 g), docile animal which breeds throughout the year and produces large litters ...marsupials, Monodelphis females lack a pouch ...
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The evolution of active vibrissal sensing in mammals: evidence from vibrissal musculature and function in the marsupial opossum Monodelphis domestica
... Facial vibrissae, or whiskers, are found in nearly all extant mammal species and are likely to have been present in early mammalian ancestors. A sub-set of modern mammals, including many rodents, move their long ...
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First-Generation Linkage Map of the Gray, Short-Tailed Opossum, Monodelphis domestica, Reveals Genome-Wide Reduction in Female Recombination Rates
... opossum, Monodelphis domestica, is the most extensively used, laboratory-bred marsupial resource for basic biologic and biomedical research ...M. domestica, coupled with recombination data from two ...
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The evolution of active vibrissal sensing in mammals: evidence from vibrissal musculature and function in the marsupial opossum Monodelphis domestica
... Facial vibrissae, or whiskers, are found in nearly all extant mammal species and are likely to have been present in early mammalian ancestors. A sub-set of modern mammals, including many rodents, move their long ...
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Whole body mechanics and gaits in the gray short tailed opossum Monodelphis domestica: integrating patterns of locomotion in a semi erect mammal
... gaits? Monodelphis domestica utilizes only fast walking and running trot gaits over a fivefold increase in speed, over which we could illicit constant velocity steps, although running trots were their ...
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Thermoregulation in the South American grey short tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica : the effects of ambient temperature, bacterial endotoxin and hypoxia on behavioural and autonomic body temperature control
... Page 2.2b Recordings of Core Body Temperatures using 31 Implanted Transmitters 32 2.2c Monodelphis domestica 33 2.2d Petaurus breviceps 2.3 Determination of Selected Ambient Temperatures[r] ...
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Ontogeny of feeding function in the gray short tailed opossum Monodelphis domestica: empirical support for the constrained model of jaw biomechanics
... Fig. 3. Ventral view of the skull of a Monodelphis domestica adult. (A) Maximal bite forces were measured from three locations along the jaw: incisors or canines (I,C), premolars (P) and molars (M) and ...
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Male pheromone stimulates ovarian follicular development and body growth in juvenile female opossums (Monodelphis domestica)
... Data from unexposed females killed at 105, 130, and 150 days provided a basis for evaluating the effects of male pheromone on somatic growth and reproductive ac- tivation during pheromon[r] ...
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Development in vitro of Marsupials: a comparative review of species and a timetable of cleavage and early blastocyst stages of development in Monodelphis domestica
... Int I /)e, lIiol ~I 397 410 (1997) 397 Development in vitro of Marsupials a comparative review of species and a timetable of cleavage and early blastocyst stages of development in Monodelphis domestic[.] ...
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Cortico-cerebral histogenesis in the opossum Monodelphis domestica: generation of a hexalaminar neocortex in the absence of a basal proliferative compartment
... assessed in Trichosurus vulpecula [13]. Thalamo-cortical connectivity has also been studied by lipophylic dye tra- cing [14]. However, several features of Monodelphis cor- ticogenesis are unknown. The generation ...
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Thermoregulation in the South American grey short tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica : the effects of ambient temperature, bacterial endotoxin and hypoxia on behavioural and autonomic body temperature control
... APPENDIX 13 FOURIER ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF SIMULTANEOUS EXPOSURE TO HYPDXIA AND LIPOLYSACCHARIDE ON CORE BODY TEMPERATURE AND PREFERRED AMBIENT TEMPERATURE IN ADULT Mono delphis dome[r] ...
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Locomotor kinetics and kinematics on inclines and declines in the gray short tailed opossum Monodelphis domestica
... M. domestica assumes a high degree of crouching, with its forelimbs during incline locomotion, and hindlimbs during decline ...M. domestica did not crouch with the limb pair located lower on the trackway ...
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Development of the lateral ventricular choroid plexus in a marsupial, Monodelphis domestica
... Background: Choroid plexus epithelial cells are the site of blood/cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) barrier and regulate molecular transfer between the two compartments. Their mitotic activity in the adult is low. During ...
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Regeneration of supraspinal projections after spinal cord injury in the neonatal opossum, Monodelphis domestica
... 4.1 NEONATAL MONODELPHIS AS A MODEL FOR REGENERATION 87 4.2: THE DEVELOPMENT OF DESCENDING SUPRASPINAL PROJECTIONS TO THE LUMBAR REGION OF THE SPINAL CORD IN MONODELPHIS 90 4.3: RECONSTR[r] ...
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Metallothioneins of the South American opossum, Monodelphis domestica
... vertebrate metallothionein gene family indicates that the amplification of ancestral genes into multiple isoforms occurred independently in both mammalian lineages.. It can be inferred t[r] ...
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On the development of the chondrocranium and the histological anatomy of the head in perinatal stages of marsupial mammals
... An overview of the literature on the chondrocranium of marsupial mammals reveals a relative conservatism in shape and structures. We document the histological cranial anatomy of individuals representing ...
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Basic limb kinematics of small therian mammals
... (Monodelphis domestica; Pridmore, 1992), elbow and wrist joint in the potto (Perodicticus potto; Jouffroy et ...f. domestica; Kuhtz-Buschbeck, 1994), or (2) qualitatively single steps only at one or ...
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Cost of transport is increased after cold exposure in Monodelphis domestica: training for inefficiency
... In addition to locomotion, skeletal muscle is an important source of metabolic heat during cold stress. There has been little attention given to the effects of muscle thermogenesis upon the energetics of locomotion. Like ...
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The biodynamics of arboreal locomotion: the effects of substrate diameter on locomotor kinetics in the gray short tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica)
... used Monodelphis domestica (Wagner, 1842), the gray short-tailed opossum, as our ...M. domestica is a small terrestrial marsupial (Cartmill, 1972; Nowak, 1999) that is readily capable of moving on ...
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Abundance and seasonal distribution of filth flies and their hymenopteran puparia parasitoids in Puducherry, India
... Musca domestica was found to be the principal fly pest and this finding agree with similar study carried out in two selected food outlets in Pulau Pinag, Malaysia by Nurita Abu Tahir et ...
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