Developing the Dunnart as a Marsupial Model for Conservation Research

Enrichment of spermatogonial stem cells and staging of the testis cycle in a dasyurid marsupial, the fat-tailed dunnart

GA Tarulli, PRS Tatt, R Howlett, S Ord, SR Frankenberg, AJ Pask

2025-03-01

There is increasing interest in the use of marsupial models in research, for use in next-generation conservation by improving fitn..

Breeding fat-tailed dunnarts (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) in captivity: Revised practices to minimize stress whilst maintaining considerations of wild biology

EL Scicluna, AH Newton, JC Hutchison, AM Dimovski, KV Fanson, G D'Souza, S Whitehead, AJ Pask

2025-02-01

Background: The fat-tailed dunnart is a small dasyurid marsupial which is emerging as a robust laboratory model for conservation, ..

De novo transcriptome assembly and genome annotation of the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata)

N Ibeh, CY Feigin, SR Frankenberg, DJ McCarthy, AJ Pask, IG Romero

2024-01-01

Marsupials exhibit distinctive modes of reproduction and early development that set them apart from their eutherian counterparts a..

Embryology of the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata): A marsupial model for comparative mammalian developmental and evolutionary biology

Axel H Newton, Jennifer C Hutchison, Ella R Farley, Emily L Scicluna, Neil A Youngson, Jun Liu, Brandon R Menzies, Thomas B Hildebrandt, Ben M Lawrence, Angus HW Sutherland, David L Potter, Gerard A Tarulli, Lynne Selwood, Stephen Frankenberg, Sara Ord, Andrew J Pask

2024-01-01

BACKGROUND: Marsupials are a diverse and unique group of mammals, but remain underutilized in developmental biology studies, hinde..

A Chromosome-Scale Hybrid Genome Assembly of the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus)

C Feigin, S Frankenberg, A Pask

2022-04-01

The extinct Tasmanian tiger or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was a large marsupial carnivore native to Australia. Once rangi..