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9780521519458

The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521519458

  • ISBN10:

    0521519454

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-11-22
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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Summary

Australian marsupials represent a parallel adaptive radiation to that seen among placental mammals. This great natural experiment has produced a striking array of mammals with structural and behavioural features echoing those seen among primates, rodents, carnivores, edentates and ungulates elsewhere in the world. Many of these adaptations involve profound evolutionary changes in the nervous system, and occurred in isolation from those unfolding among placental mammals. Ashwell provides the first comprehensive review of the scientific literature on the structure and function of the nervous system of Australian marsupials. The book also includes the first comprehensive delineated atlases of brain structure in a representative diprotodont marsupial (the tammar wallaby) and a representative polyprotodont marsupial (the stripe-faced dunnart). For those interested in brain development, the book also provides the first comprehensive delineated atlas of brain development in a diprotodont marsupial (the tammar wallaby) during the critical first 4 weeks of pouch life.

Table of Contents

Classification, evolution and behavioural ecology of Australian marsupials
Overview of marsupial brain organization and evolution
Development and sexual dimorphism
Ventral hindbrain and midbrain
Cerebellum, vestibular and precerebellar nuclei
Diencephalon and associated structures
Deep telencephalic structures
Cerebral cortex and claustrum/endopiriform complex
Visual system
Somatosensory system
Auditory system
Olfactory system
Motor system and spinal cord
Australian marsupials as models of brain development
Australian marsupials as models of ageing and disease
Atlas of the brain of the stripe-faced dunnart (Sminthopsis macroura)
Stereotaxic atlas of the brain of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii)
Atlas of the brain of the developing tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii)
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