"Marsupialia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An infraclass of MAMMALS, also called Metatheria, where the young are born at an early stage of development and continue to develop in a pouch (marsupium). In contrast to Eutheria (placentals), marsupials have an incomplete PLACENTA.
| Descriptor ID |
D008394
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.573
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Marsupialia" by people in Profiles.
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Three-dimensional mandibular kinematics of mastication in the marsupial Didelphis virginiana. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2023 12 04; 378(1891):20220548.
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New gliding mammaliaforms from the Jurassic. Nature. 2017 08 17; 548(7667):291-296.
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No need for disease: testing extinction hypotheses for the thylacine using multi-species metamodels. J Anim Ecol. 2013 Mar; 82(2):355-64.
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A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals. Nature. 2011 Aug 24; 476(7361):442-5.
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Petrosal anatomy and inner ear structures of the Late Jurassic Henkelotherium (Mammalia, Cladotheria, Dryolestoidea): insight into the early evolution of the ear region in cladotherian mammals. J Anat. 2009 May; 214(5):679-93.
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An Early Cretaceous tribosphenic mammal and metatherian evolution. Science. 2003 Dec 12; 302(5652):1934-40.
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A new symmetrodont mammal from China and its implications for mammalian evolution. Nature. 1997 Nov 13; 390(6656):137-42.
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Proceedings: proceedings of the Australian society for reproductive biology. J Reprod Fertil. 1975 May; 43(2):373-4.