Mammal species of the world a taxonomic and geographic reference. Grey shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica wagner, 1842. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. They are covered in dense, short, graybrown fur that is very soft. The cortical plate does not begin to appear until 3 to 5. Gray, shorttailed opossum loxodonta africana monodelphis domestica 2. Monodelphis is a member of didelphidae, a group of exclusively new world opossums thought to be basal among the living marsupials didelphids are often used to approximate basal mammals. Description of a cranial endocast from the fossil mammal vincelestes neuquenianus. Here we report a case of a 3yold breeding female, part of an endocrinology study, that presented with right enophthalmia, moderate periorbital swelling, prolapsed and inflamed third eyelid, blepharospasm, and blepharitis with mild purulent discharge. Cranial endocasts from a growth series of monodelphis. Marsupials are noted for giving birth to highly altricial young after a short gestation, and represent. Unlike most other marsupials, the gray shorttailed opossum does not have a true pouch. Thesis presented to the faculty of the graduate school of the university of texas at austin in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of. May 10, 2007 the genome of the grey shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica has been sequenced and analyzed, giving a first peek at a marsupials genetic code.
Journal of morphology, published online 11 july, 2007. Monodelphis is a member of didelphidae, a group of exclusively new world opossums thought to be basal among the living marsupials. To view articles you must have the free adobe acrobat reader. Organization of the olfactory and respiratory skeleton in the.
Cranial osteogenesis in monodelphis domestica didelphidae. Didelphis virginiana monodelphis domestica native to s. The development of the neocortex of the marsupial monodelphis domestica has been studied from birth until adulthood. Monodelphis domestica the gray shorttailed opossum in biomedical research. Monodelphis domestica brazilian short tailed opposum. Ketcham1 the internal nasal skeleton in monodelphis domestica, the gray shorttailed opossum, primarily supports olfactory and respiratory epithelia, the vomeronasal organ, and the nasal gland. Monodelphis domestica are naturally found in arboreal habitats in south america.
Histology of lung samples collected from monodelphis at postnatal days 1, 8, 14, 29, 35, 61 and adult stages fig. Monodelphis domestica, the gray shorttailed opossum, is native to brazil, bolivia, paraguay, and argentina, but has found its way to north america as a common biomedical laboratory test animal. Pierre boudinot 0 france 0 victoria leigh hansen 0 1 faye dorothy schilkey 0 robert david miller 0 1 0 current address. The bio geographic history of these two species indicates that their lineages have been evolv ing separately for at least 40 million years woodburne and zinsmeister, 84. The system, present in most terrestrial vertebrates, is comprised of the peripherally situated vomeronasal organ vno, whose sensory neurons project their axons to the accessory olfactory bulb figure 1, and the further projections from the.
A new species of monodelphis didelphimorphia, didelphidae. Skeletal ontogeny of monodelphis domestica mammalia. Our animal model, the gray shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica is a marsupial that is proposed to represent this ancestral state more closely than. September transcriptomic changes associated with pregnancy in a marsupial, the gray short tailed opossum monodelphis domestica editor. Therefore, both virgin v females prefirst estrus as well as nonpregnant n experienced past. Gray shorttailed opossums, monodelphis domestica, are members of. Ketcham1 the internal nasal skeleton in monodelphis domestica, the gray shorttailed opossum, primarily supports olfactory and respiratory epithelia, the. Chronic cold exposure increases liver oxidative capacity. Grey shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica smith p 2008 fauna paraguay handbook of the mammals of paraguay number 10 grey shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica pdf file 2. During the reconstruction process, the model of monodelphis domestica derived from contrast. An monodelphis domestica in uska species han didelphimorphia nga syahan ginhulagway ni wagner hadton 1842. Digimorph monodelphis domestica gray shorttailed opossum.
Reproduction in the gray shorttailed opossum, monodelphis. Smith department of biological aizthropology nnd anatomy, duke university medical center, durham, north carolina 27710 abstract the pattern of onset and general rate of cranial ossification are. The gray shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica is a small. An monodelphis domestica in nahilalakip ha genus nga monodelphis, ngan familia nga didelphidae. Pdf the organization of somatosensory cortex in the. Smith p 2008 grey shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica mammals of paraguay n. A threedimensional stereotaxic atlas of the gray shorttailed. These animals are of particular interest because they are the most ancient family of marsupials known and may represent the ancestors of all extant species in both the new world and australia richardson 1988. Fulltext is provided in portable document format pdf. Comparing the opossum vpreb to homologues from eutherian placental mammals and avian species supported the marsupial gene being. Interactive 3d pdf files see online figure s7s were created for all taxa following the protocol outlined in lautenschlager. Ginklasipika han iucn an species komo diri gud kababarakan. The gray shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica is a small south american member of the family didelphidae.
The role of the vomeronasal system in food preferences of the. This report presents statistics on the annotation products, the input data used in the pipeline and intermediate. The south american gray shorttailed opossum, monodelphis domestica, is a small 80120 g, nocturnal marsupial native to. Welcome to cdc stacks a vpreb3 homologue from a marsupial. Introductionmonodelphis domestica, the gray, shorttailed, or laboratory opossum, is the most commonly used laboratory marsupial. Monodelphis domestica is a member of the group of shorttailed opossums, monodelphis, which are some of the smallest didelphids. Thalamic projections to parietal cortical areas in. A study of individual and ontogenetic variation thomas e. This page was last edited on 9 december 2014, at 02. Monodelphis domestica brazilian short tailed opposum class. Animals were obtained from a colony at the southwest foundation for biomedical research sfbr in san antonio, and conducted according to the phs policy on the humane care and use of laboratory animals with the approval of the sfbr iacuc. Didelphis albiventris lund, 1841, monodelphis domestica muller, 1775, marmosa cf.
Figure s1 for high resolution images revealed that the lungs collected 1 day after birth consisted only of a few large air sacs surrounded by a thick layer of epithelial cells fig. Grey shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica fauna. Smith p monodelphis domestica fauna paraguay handbook of the. Wild opossums are solitary animals living in tree hollows or stone crevices, often near or inside human. Cranial endocasts from a growth series of monodelphis domestica didelphidae, marsupialia. The genome of the grey shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica has been sequenced and analyzed, giving a first peek at a marsupials genetic code. Opossum husbandry year round breeding, record for embryos.
Furthermore, it explores the expression patterns and levels of target genes in a comparative study between monodelphis domestica and mus musculus. Vandeberg4 1department of mammalogy, american museum of natural history, new york, new york 10024 2jackson school of geosciences, the university of texas at austin, austin, texas 78712. The gray shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica is a small marsupial gaining recognition as a laboratory animal in biomedical research. Amelotin gene structure and expression during enamel.
The gray shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica, in this paper shortened to opossum is a member of the family didelphidae, the core family of extant marsupials that diverged from the eutherian mammals more than 125 millions years ago. Values inside bars correspond to the absolute numbers of females. Ensrnop00000016423, loxodonta africana enslafp00000014382, monodelphis domestica ensmodp00000027344. Monodelphis domestica short tailed opossum public group. Monodelphis is born after a gestational period of 14 days, a time when the neocortex is still at a twolayered embryonic stage of development, that is equivalent to a 14 day rat embryo or 6 week human embryo. Despite numerous studies on opossum neuroanatomy, a consistent and comprehensive neuroanatomical reference for this species is still missing. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Monodelphis domestica and macropus eu genii represent primitive and derived lin eages of metatherians, respectively.
Osf a threedimensional stereotaxic atlas of the gray short. Behavior of the gray shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica in the open field and in response to a new object, in comparison with the rat. Nov 23, 2016 during the reconstruction process, the model of monodelphis domestica derived from contrast. Monodelphis saci, new species, belongs to the subgenus mygalodelphys, and analyses of dna sequence data suggest that it is most closely related to m. Amelotin gene structure and expression during enamel formation in the opossum monodelphis domestica, plos one, 2015, 7, doi. Osf a threedimensional stereotaxic atlas of the gray. The role of the vomeronasal system in food preferences of. A revised subgeneric classification of shorttailed.
If you do not see its contents the file may be temporarily unavailable at the journal website or you do not have a pdf plugin installed and enabled in your browser. Abstracts of scientific presentations ohio state university. A vpreb surrogate light sl chain was identified for the first time in a marsupial, the opossum monodelphis domestica. Transcriptomic changes associated with pregnancy in a. A quantitative morphometric study of shoulder girdle development reveals that the coracoid is reduced in size relative to other aspects of the shoulder girdle by growing at a slower rate. Organization of the olfactory and respiratory skeleton in. Live birth has emerged as a reproductive strategy many times across vertebrate evolution. The gray shorttailed opossum, monodelphis domestica, is a member of the didelphidae family of opossums.
The scientific name monodelphis is derived from greek and means single womb referring to the lack of a pouch and the latin word domestica which means domestic chosen because of the species. They are covered in dense, short, graybrown fur that. Gene expression profiling of postnatal lung development in. Behavior of the gray shorttailed opossum monodelphis.
Lindstedt,12 department of biological sciences, northern arizona university, flagstaff, az 86011, usa received 11 september 2002. A new mammalian model system for thalidomide teratogenesis. Number of embryos identified by colors in the figure legend, 0 as recorded in the snp files for each age class of monodelphis domestica vertical bars. The organization of somatosensory cortex in the shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica. Monodelphis domestica short tailed opossum has 610 members. Aggressive behaviour streilein 1982e documents the agnostic behaviour of this. Get a printable copy pdf file of the complete article 8. Testis development in the opossum monodelphis domestica.
Limb cell behaviors in monodelphis domestica growth and. We compared these endocasts with the gross anatomy of brains of m. Request pdf a new mammalian model system for thalidomide teratogenesis. Genome of the marsupial monodelphis domestica reveals.
Diagnostic morphological traits include pelage coloration, qualitative aspects of craniodental morphology, and a distinctive range of morphometric variation. Short tailed opossums look much like mice in appearance. Vilcabamba, peru monodelphis emiliae pando, bolivia monodelphis cf brevicaudata rio xingu, brazil monodelphis glirina pando, bolivia monodelphis domestica dept. Development of the lateral ventricular choroid plexus in a. Seelke amh, dooley jc, and krubitzer l 2014 the cellular composition of the marsupial neocortex. The refseq genome records for monodelphis domestica were annotated by the ncbi eukaryotic genome annotation pipeline, an automated pipeline that annotates genes, transcripts and proteins on draft and finished genome assemblies.
Results also suggest that alterations in the fgfmapk pathway are capable of generating differences in cell proliferation that mirror those observed between wildtype fore and hind limbs of m. Marsupials are a mammalian lineage that last shared a common ancestor with eutherians placental mammals over 148 million years ago. Wild opossums are solitary animals living in tree hollows or stone crevices, often near or inside human dwellings in the semiarid. Ninebanded armadillo canis lupus dasypus novemcinctus 5.
Division of integrative organismal systems, national science foundation, 4201 wilson blvd, arlington, virginia, united states of america 1. Here we present the first threedimensional, multimodal atlas of the monodelphis opossum brain. Morphological evolution of the mammalian jaw adductor complex. Grey shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica fauna paraguay. The laboratory opossum monodelphis domestica in laboratory. In vitro fertilization and embryo culture in the grey shorttailed. Pelage variation and reproduction in the gray shorttailed. With this work, the knowledge about the marsupials of the quaternary of the serra da capivara is expanded, registering new didelphid taxa from different. Jul 14, 2003 the gray shorttailed opossum monodelphis domestica, in this paper shortened to opossum is a member of the family didelphidae, the core family of extant marsupials that diverged from the eutherian mammals more than 125 millions years ago. Adult males weigh between 90 and 155 g, females are between 80 and 100 g. The role of the vomeronasal system in food preferences of the gray. If the inline pdf is not rendering correctly, you can download the pdf file here.