CONTENTS

Preface

Part 1 Evolution and systematics

1 Molecular systematics of Dasyuromorphia

2 Evolution of American marsupials and their phylogenetic relationships with Australian metatherians

3 Early marsupial radiations in South America

4 Comparative anatomy of the Tiupampa didelphimorphs; an approach to locomotory habits of early marsupials

5 Molecular phylogeography and species limits in rainforest didelphid marsupials of South America

6 Diversity and distribution of Thylamys (Didelphidae) in South America, with emphasis on species from the western side of the Andes

7 Australian marsupial carnivores: recent advances in palaeontology

8 Biogeography and speciation in the Dasyuridae: why are there so many kinds of dasyurids?

Part 2 Reproduction and development

9 Sperm maturation and fertilisation in Australian and American insectivorous marsupials

10 Timing of reproduction in carnivorous marsupials

11 Reproductive biology of some dasyurid marsupials of New Guinea

12 Male genital system of South American didelphids

13 Perinatal sensory and motor development in marsupials with special reference to the Northern Quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus

Part 3 Physiology

14 Nutrition of carnivorous marsupials

15 Nutritional and fibre contents of laboratory-established diets of neotropical opossums (Didelphidae)

16 Thermal biology and energetics of carnivorous marsupials

17 Stress, hormones and mortality in small carnivorous marsupials

Part 4 Evolutionary ecology and behaviour

18 Carnivory and insectivory in Neotropical marsupials

19 Convergence in ecomorphology and guild structure among marsupial and placental carnivores

20 Latitudinal variation in South American marsupial biology

21 Distributional ecology of dasyurid marsupials

22 Behaviour of carnivorous marsupials

23 Chemical communication in dasyurid marsupials

24 Reproductive biology of carnivorous marsupials: clues to the likelihood of sperm competition

25 Biased sex ratios in litters of carnivorous marsupials: why, when & how?

26 Parasites of carnivorous marsupials

Part 5 Conservation

27 Marsupials of the New World: status and conservation

28 Dasyurid dilemmas: problems and solutions for conserving Australia’s small carnivorous marsupials

29 Carnivore concerns: problems, issues and solutions for conserving Australasia’s marsupial carnivores

30 Recovery of the threatened chuditch (Dasyurus geoffroii): a case study

31 Conservation of the numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus)

32 Biology and conservation of marsupial moles (Notoryctes)

33 The application of genetic research to conservation management in carnivorous marsupials with special emphasis on dasyurids