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Articles related to marsupials

Browse: Kangaroos Are Left-Handed
Credit: Henry Cook
Feature: Wallabies Rock the Basis of Speciation
Sally Potter & Mark Eldridge
Six rock-wallaby species in Queensland have different numbers of chromosomes, yet gene flow somehow occurs between them. What does this tell us about how new species form?
Credit: Phil Spark
Feature: What Do Genomes Have To Say About Marsupial History?
David A. Duchêne
Marsupials have walked on Australia for tens of millions of years, and include iconic species like the kangaroo, wombat and bilby. New methods for studying the genomes of marsupials have revealed some surprising aspects of their evolution.