Table of contents
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Marsupial Breeding
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Marsupial Chromosomes and Gene Maps
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Marsupial Genome Sequencing
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Marsupial Sex Chromosomes
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Marsupial Epigenetics
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Marsupial Reproductive and Developmental Genetics
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Marsupial Immune Genes
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Marsupial Genes and Gene Evolution
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Marsupial Conservation Genetics
About this book
Introduction
Marsupials belong to the Class Mammalia, sharing some features with other mammals, yet they also possess many unique features. It is their differences from the more traditionally studied mammals, such as mice and humans, that is of greatest value to comparative studies.
Sequencing of genomes from two distantly related marsupials, the short grey-tailed opossum from South America and the Australian tammar wallaby, has launched marsupials into the genomics era and accelerated the rate of progress in marsupial research. With the current worldwide concern for the plight of the endangered Tasmanian devil, marsupial genetics and genomics research is even more important than ever if this species is to be saved from extinction. This volume recounts some of the history of research in this field and highlights the most recent advances in the many different areas of marsupial genetics and genomics research.
Keywords
Telomere bioinformatics chromosome evolution genes genetics
Editors and affiliations
Bibliographic information
- Book Title Marsupial Genetics and Genomics
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Editors
Paul D. Waters
Janine E. Deakin
Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9023-2
- Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
- Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht
- eBook Packages Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
- Hardcover ISBN 978-90-481-9022-5
- Softcover ISBN 978-94-007-9740-6
- eBook ISBN 978-90-481-9023-2
- Edition Number 1
- Number of Pages XIX, 519
- Number of Illustrations 0 b/w illustrations, 0 illustrations in colour
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Topics
Animal Genetics and Genomics
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