BIOL30001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Marsupial Mole, Infant, Mammary Gland
13 Aug 2018
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Marsupials are placentals the fetus on the front pic there are three different sacs the allantois is wherer the urine goes. Peramelids, marsupial moles and honey possums solitary animals and can be insectivians antechinus is common around victoria they have an unusual reproductive strategy the males will have 1 breeding season and females have 1 as well. Marsupials hae epipubic bone which functions for locomotion and to support the suckling young altricial young (birds and mammals) When they are born they are very underdeveloped and they undergo the last altricial young neonate weight vs maternal weight. Roles of prolactin in tammar diapause is a suspended animation which is what the tammar wallaby embryo goes through al females give birth january. Diapause in the tammar this is a fertilised egg there is a thick coat the single cell divides in cleavage. When it gets to 80-100 cells the signals stop.
