... of brown adipose tissue, thus baring pivotal clues to fully understand the importance of this heater organ. Beige adipose tissue Uncoupling protein Thermogenesis Marsupials Endothermy Metabolic disease Endogenous heat production is one of the most fascinating evolutionary achievements...

... marsupial (the sugar glider, Petaurus breviceps ; body mass range of our sample 33-97 g). Juvenile and adult P. breviceps were filmed moving across a flat board and three poles 2.5, 1.0 and 0.5 cm in diameter. Sugar gliders (regardless of age or relative speed) responded to relative decreases in substrate...

.... Exp. Biol. 206 , 1221 -1231. Dau, J. ( 2005 ). Two caribou mortality events in Northwest Alaska: possible causes and management implications. Rangifer 16 , 37 -50. Dawson, T. J. ( 1995 ). Kangaroos:Biology of the Largest Marsupials . Sydney: University of New South Wales Press...

...David S. Hinds; R. V. Baudinette; Richard E. Macmillen; E. Annette Halpern ABSTRACT Minimum and maximum metabolism in response to cold were measured in 30 species of Australian monotremes, marsupials, eutherians and birds. In marsupials and the echidna, maximum metabolism was also determined during...

... pronounced increase in rewarming with a decrease in body mass than did the other taxa. The rates of rewarming of marsupials were similar to those of placentals. At low air temperature ( T a ), the rate of rewarming of marsupials was not related to body mass, although a strong relationship between the two...