Test of the first-cohort advantage hypothesis with feathertail gliders (Marsupialia)

SJ Ward - Journal of mammalogy, 2007 - academic.oup.com
… that are born in the 2nd cohort of a season will not be as large as 1st-cohort males at the
start of their 1st breeding season, but this difference between cohorts and its impacts on lifetime …

Timing of birth determines lifetime survival in a Neotropical marsupial

RC da Silva, MV Vieira, R Cerqueira, MS Ferreira - Mammalian Biology, 2023 - Springer
… In this study, we evaluated whether individuals of the marsupial Didelphis aurita born in
the first and second birth cohorts differ in survival using a 21-year capture-mark-recapture …

Marsupial relationships and a timeline for marsupial radiation in South Gondwana

MA Nilsson, U Arnason, PBS Spencer, A Janke - Gene, 2004 - Elsevier
… Recent marsupials include about 280 species divided into … In this study, we examine marsupial
relationships and … and a total number of 19 marsupial genomes, encompasses all extant …

The chronicle of marsupial evolution

MS Springer, JAW Kirsch, JA Case… - Molecular evolution …, 1997 - books.google.com
… our understanding of early marsupial evolution. A probable marsupial was found in the Albian
… Disregarding these details, Szalay placed CLAJP marsupials in one cohort comprised of …

“South American” marsupials from the Late Cretaceous of North America and the origin of marsupial cohorts

JA Case, FJ Goin, MO Woodburne - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2005 - Springer
Marsupialia. One major outcome of this process is that the Polydolopimorphia is placed as
Supercohort Marsupialia … securely place it within one of the three named marsupial cohorts. …

[PDF][PDF] Relationships and divergence times among the orders and families of Marsupialia

RW Meredith, C Krajewski, M Westerman… - Museum of Northern …, 2009 - academia.edu
… We included 28 marsupial taxa that are representative of all marsupial orders and all
recent marsupial families except for Thylacinidae and Chaeropodidae. We also included four …

“South American” marsupials from the Late Cretaceous of North America and the origin of marsupial cohorts

JA Case, FJ Goin, MO Woodburne - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2004 - Springer
Marsupialia. One major outcome of this process is that the Polydolopimorphia is placed as
Supercohort Marsupialia … securely place it within one of the three named marsupial cohorts. …

Life history of a neotropical marsupial: Evaluating potential contributions of survival and reproduction to population growth rate

MS Ferreira, M Kajin, MV Vieira, PL Zangrandi… - Mammalian Biology, 2013 - Elsevier
… considered age and cohort as sources of differences among individuals. A cohort was defined
by a group of individuals born in the same breeding season of the year (eg, cohort 1992), …

A phylogeny and timescale for marsupial evolution based on sequences for five nuclear genes

RW Meredith, M Westerman, JA Case… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2008 - Springer
… higher-level marsupialmarsupial evolution and estimate the unrepresented basal branch
length (UBBL). Maximum likelihood and Bayesian results suggest that the root of the marsupial

A dated phylogeny of marsupials using a molecular supermatrix and multiple fossil constraints

RMD Beck - Journal of Mammalogy, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… of marsupial biogeography: if Dromiciops is the sister group to all Australasian
marsupials (Amrine-Madsen et al. 2003; Phillips et al. 2006), then only a single dispersal of …