What's the difference between marsupial and wallaroo?

Marsupial


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a pouch for carrying the immature young; of or pertaining to the Marsupialia.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a marsupium; as, the marsupial bones.
  • (n.) One of the Marsupialia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The thermoregulatory responses of this American marsupial were, in most aspects, similar to those of Australian marsupials.
  • (2) A marked overlap of input from the two eyes is an unusual feature for a diprotodont marsupial and has previously been seen only in the feathertail glider.
  • (3) This is believed to be the first reported case of degenerative cardiomyopathy in a captive marsupial in Nigeria.
  • (4) In contrast to many eutherian (placental) species, this marsupial was found to lack histamine in blood leukocytes and platelets.
  • (5) When the patient experienced discomfort, an incisional biopsy and marsupialization were performed.
  • (6) These findings are discussed with respect to similarities and differences between marsupial and eutherian females and between male and female gray opossums in the hormonal control of sexually dimorphic behavior and morphology.
  • (7) DNA sequences from the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene were obtained from a museum specimen of the presumed extinct thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) and were compared with homologous sequences from 13 representatives of the Australian marsupial family Dasyuridae.
  • (8) Surgical marsupialization of the lymphocele with drainage into the peritoneal cavity proved to be an effective treatment.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Locals sell fruit and cuscus, a possum-like marsupial, at the market in Lorengau Not long before the accident, witness said, the driver had been riding around with local women and another taskforce officer, drinking and “not fully clothed”, as Guardian Australia reported on Monday .
  • (10) Thin blood smears were collected from 126 mammals representing four genera of marsupials and six genera of murid rodents.
  • (11) The development of righting was studied in the young of Dasyurus hallucatus, a small marsupial from northern Australia.
  • (12) This report contains the first description of a salivary gland tumour in a dasyurid marsupial; the same animal also had a mammary carcinoma.
  • (13) 53 cases were all marsupialized into the oral vestibulum.
  • (14) The effect of destruction of some blastomeres on subsequent cleavage in vitro was investigated in the marsupial Antechinus stuartii.
  • (15) One had bilateral ureterostomies and the subsequent four had marsupialization of the bladder.
  • (16) The effects of ambient temperature and of sex on nest-building behavior were studied in a laboratory colony of gray short-tailed opossums, small, Brazilian marsupials.
  • (17) This paper reviews the recent literature on odontogenic keratocysts and reports our experience with three cases successfully managed in three different ways: marsupialization, decompression followed by enucleation with primary closure and finally by enucleation with packing for secondary intention healing.
  • (18) Treatment by excision, marsupialization, or injection of absolute alcohol (95% ethanol) is discussed.
  • (19) We have found evidence in a marsupial mammal for extensive sexual dimorphisms which precede any morphological differentiation of the gonads.
  • (20) Oxygen carriage and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) levels have been measured in the blood of seven species of Australian marsupials ranging in size from 35 to 0.03 kg.

Wallaroo


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several species of kangaroos of the genus Macropus, especially M. robustus, sometimes called the great wallaroo.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were Red and Grey Kangaroos, Wallaroo, Tammar Wallaby, Brush-tailed possum, Potoroo, and Brown Marsupial Mouse.
  • (2) Wallaroos (Macropus robustus robustus), which have the G6PD-F electrophoretic phenotype, crossed with euros (M.r.erubescens), of G6PD-S phenotype, produced F1 animals which had only the maternal G6PD type regardless of the direction of the cross.
  • (3) The erythrocytes of the western grey kangaroo, the eastern wallaroo and the red-necked wallaby showed pronounced resistance to hypotonic lysis compared with those of the Tammar wallaby and the human.
  • (4) The results of a comparison between the paternal X chromosome of a wallaroo X red kangaroo hybrid female and the two X chromosomes of a red kangaroo female suggested that the facultative heterochromatin of the X is also less susceptible to breakage by this treatment.
  • (5) E. flindersi, new species, is described from M. eugenii, M. rufogriseus, and M. antilopinus (antilopine wallaroo).
  • (6) E. wilcanniensis Mykytowycz, 1964 is redescribed from M. rufus, and the host range is extended to M. giganteus, M. fuliginosus and M. robustus (euro or wallaroo).
  • (7) Bacteriophages were observed in forestomach contents from three species of Australian macropodoid marsupials possessing a foregut fermentative digestion: the eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), the eastern wallaroo (Macropus robustus robustus), and the rufous bettong (Aepyprymnus rufescens).
  • (8) Sex-linked inheritance of allelic G6PD genes is shown to occur in wallaroos, euros and red kangaroos (M. rufus).
  • (9) When F1 hybrids were backcrossed to wallaroos or euros, backcross progeny of either perental phenotype resulted.
  • (10) Four wallaroos (Macropus robustus) from a central California zoo colony of 22 died within a three week period.
  • (11) The proteins of erythrocyte membranes from the red kangaroo, western grey kangaroo, eastern grey wallaroo (euro), red-necked wallaby, Tammar wallaby, and brush-tail possum have been fractionated on acrylamide gels in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate.
  • (12) The greatest diversity of phage types was found in forestomach contents of the wallaroo, and few phage types were recorded from the rufous bettongs.

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