News tagged with wallabies
Australian mammals take on antibiotic-resistant bugs
The Australian wallaby and platypus could turn out to be key weapons in fighting the growing health threat of multidrug-resistant bacteria, a team involving University of Sydney researchers has discovered.
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Tammar wallaby’s clever immune tricks revealed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Until now, it was a mystery why many marsupials have two thymuses—key organs in the immune system—instead of the one typical of other mammals. Now postdoctoral researcher Dr. Emily ...
Jul 11, 2011 |
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Down-under digestive microbes could help lower methane gas from livestock
The discovery that a bacterial species in the Australian Tammar wallaby gut is responsible for keeping the animal's methane emissions relatively low suggests a potential new strategy may exist to try to reduce ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 30, 2011 |
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A hop from South America -- tracking Australian marsupials
Debates have raged for decades about how to arrange the Australian and South American branches of the marsupial family tree.
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Wallabies and bats harbor 'fossil' genes from the most deadly family of human viruses
Modern marsupials may be popular animals at the zoo and in children's books, but new findings by University at Buffalo biologists reveal that they harbor a "fossil" copy of a gene that codes for filoviruses, ...
Jul 02, 2010 |
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