(n.) Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Called also kangaroo rat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Milk samples from captive potoroos were analysed for composition during weeks 3-25 of the lactation period.
(2) They were Red and Grey Kangaroos, Wallaroo, Tammar Wallaby, Brush-tailed possum, Potoroo, and Brown Marsupial Mouse.
(3) By use of a barometric technique, tidal volume (VT), minute volume (VE), respiratory frequency (f), and respiratory evaporative heat loss (Eex) were measured from conscious unrestrained potoroos (Potorous tridactylus), barred bandicoots (Perameles gunnii), and New Zealand white rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) at temperatures in and above the thermoneutral zone (TNZ).
(4) were observed in the kidneys of the potoroo, Potorous apicalis.
(5) VT initially decreased with rising Ta, but in the potoroo and rabbit it then increased past the resting level.
(6) Proteins having similar MWs and isoelectric points as the human or monkey (primates) proteins were not observed in cultured cells of the following species: aves, bat, dog, dolphin, goat, hamster, mink, mouse, pisces, potoroo, rabbit and rat.
(7) It is suggested that the CL of the potoroo is required for a slightly greater proportion of pregnancy than in most larger kangaroos because the birth canal must be prepared before each parturition.
(8) Segregation of visual input increases progressively in the remaining polyprotodont (eastern quoll) and in the diprotodonts (Tasmanian bettong, Tasmanian potoroo and brush-tailed possum), culminating in the last-named, in which segregation is most complete.
(9) Fasting and fed metabolic rates were measured in three species of potoroine marsupials, the rufous rat-kangaroo (Aepyprymnus rufescens), the long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) and the brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata).
(10) The cells used were: OFL (ovine fetal lung), ML (mink lung), FK (ferret kidney), PTK-2 (potoroo kidney), TEK (turkey embryo kidney), ED (equine dermal), BT (bovine turbinate), and PK15 (porcine kidney).
(11) Thus, trends in milk composition previously observed in Macropus species were observed also in the potoroo, suggesting a consistent pattern across the macropodid family.
(12) The growth cycle of the corpus luteum (CL) of the potoroo is similar to that of other macropodids.
(13) Carbohydrate levels in potoroo milk tend to be higher than in other macropodids, but total milk intake is as important as composition in determining growth rates.
(14) This study presents the precise localization of mitotin in cytoplasmic structures in two cell types, the potoroo rat kangaroo PtK2 cell and the human lung cancer EPLC 65 cell.
(15) In the light of our findings on the American opossum we have examined a large collection of brush-tailed possum material (as well as some from the potoroo and Tasmanian native cat) and have been able to extend our previous findings (Martin et al.
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.