Steve Cooper receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Alyson Stobo-Wilson, Andrew M. Baker, Sue Carthew, and Teigan Cremona do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...

When considered as one species, sugar gliders were widespread, abundant and officially classified as “least concern”, but now that’s changed. Most Australians are familiar with the cute, nectar-loving ...

It has evolved at least three times independently in closely related glider species, including sugar gliders. But the question lingers as to how it evolved. From a basic biology point of view ...

For the first time, we were able to use Diversity Arrays (DArT) sequencing to provide genetic support for multiple species," he said. Greater gliders, much larger than the more well-known sugar ...

Sugar gliders, small palm-sized marsupials with ... many non-native animals as pets due to either endangerment of the species in the wild or the threat a species poses to native wildlife ...

A parachute-like skin membrane, the patagium, evolved independently in several marsupial species. Genomic analysis ... patagium tissue of newborn sugar gliders using techniques known as ChIP ...

to get the calculations right for the species being targeted. We are gradually gathering more evidence of glide pole use. Squirrel gliders, sugar gliders and feathertail gliders have been recorded ...