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The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials

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The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials

The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials

Brain Evolution in the Other Mammalian Radiation
Ken Ashwell, University of New South Wales, Sydney
November 2010
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    Australian marsupials represent a parallel adaptive radiation to that seen among placental mammals. This great natural experiment has produced a striking array of mammals with structural and behavioural features echoing those seen among primates, rodents, carnivores, edentates and ungulates elsewhere in the world. Many of these adaptations involve profound evolutionary changes in the nervous system, and occurred in isolation from those unfolding among placental mammals. Ashwell provides the first comprehensive review of the scientific literature on the structure and function of the nervous system of Australian marsupials. The book also includes the first comprehensive delineated atlases of brain structure in a representative diprotodont marsupial (the tammar wallaby) and a representative polyprotodont marsupial (the stripe-faced dunnart). For those interested in brain development, the book also provides the first comprehensive delineated atlas of brain development in a diprotodont marsupial (the tammar wallaby) during the critical first 4 weeks of pouch life.

    • Comprehensive review of the scientific literature of the structure, function and evolution of the nervous system of Australian marsupials
    • Includes images of the brains of Australian marsupials available online (www.cambridge.org/uk/9780521519458) with high resolution atlases, providing essential research tools for studying the brain and behaviour of marsupials in detail
    • Includes the first account of the brain and head development of a diprodont Australian marsupial, during the first 4 weeks of its life - an invaluable research tool for anyone studying evolutionary aspects of brain development

    Reviews & endorsements

    '… rigorously organized …this volume provides a comprehensive review of the scientific literature on the structure and function of the nervous system of Australian marsupials … as well as a useful glossary. A recommendable book.' Mammalia

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    November 2010
    Hardback
    9780521519458
    366 pages
    282 × 225 × 27 mm
    1.56kg
    187 b/w illus. 11 tables
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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Classification, evolution and behavioural ecology of Australian marsupials K. Ashwell
    • 2. Overview of marsupial brain organization and evolution K. Ashwell
    • 3. Development and sexual dimorphism K. Ashwell
    • 4. Ventral hindbrain and midbrain K. Ashwell
    • 5. Cerebellum, vestibular and precerebellar nuclei K. Ashwell
    • 6. Diencephalon and associated structures K. Ashwell
    • 7. Deep telencephalic structures K. Ashwell
    • 8. Cerebral cortex and claustrum/endopiriform complex K. Ashwell
    • 9. Visual system L. D. Beazley, C. Arrese and D. M. Hunt
    • 10. Somatosensory system L. Marotte, C. Leamey and P. Waite
    • 11. Auditory system L. Aitkin and R. K. Shepherd
    • 12. Olfactory system K. Ashwell
    • 13. Motor system and spinal cord K. Ashwell
    • 14. Australian marsupials as models of brain development L. Marotte, P. Waite and C. Leamey
    • 15. Australian marsupials as models of ageing and disease B. McAllan and S. J. Richardson
    • 16. Atlas of the brain of the stripe-faced dunnart (Sminthopsis macroura) K. Ashwell, B. McAllan and J. K. Mai
    • 17. Stereotaxic atlas of the brain of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) K. Ashwell and L. Marotte
    • 18. Atlas of the brain of the developing tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) K. Ashwell, L. Marotte and J. K. Mai.
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    • K. Ashwell, L. D. Beazley, C. Arrese, D. M. Hunt, L. Marotte, C. Leamey, P. Waite, L. Aitkin, R. K. Shepherd, B. McAllan, S. J. Richardson, J. K. Mai

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    • Ken Ashwell , University of New South Wales, Sydney

      Ken Ashwell has over 29 years in the neurosciences field, including teaching experience in medical anatomy, neuroscience, comparative anatomy and anthropology. Ken has published over 100 papers in international refereed neuroscience journals, ten book chapters and four books. He has published four developmental and adult brain atlases in collaboration with George Paxinos and colleagues and contributed to a prestigious and definitive work on the anatomy of the human nervous system edited by Jürgen Mai and George Paxinos. With research funding support from the Australian Research Council and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany, Ken has published more than 30 papers in international refereed journals on comparative neuroscience of living and recently extinct Australasian mammals and birds, 20 of these have been on monotreme neuroanatomy and 9 on marsupial neuroanatomy. Ken is currently Professor of Anatomy at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

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