Functional ecological convergence between the thylacine and small prey-focused canids by Douglass S. Rovinsky, Alistair R. Evans, Justin W. Adams

Subjects: “…Thylacine…”
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The pre-Pleistocene fossil thylacinids (Dasyuromorphia: Thylacinidae) and the evolutionary context of the modern thylacine by Douglass S. Rovinsky, Alistair R. Evans, Justin W. Adams

“…The thylacine is popularly used as a classic example of convergent evolution between placental and marsupial mammals. …”
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Ontogenetic origins of cranial convergence between the extinct marsupial thylacine and placental gray wolf by Axel H. Newton, Vera Weisbecker, Andrew J. Pask, Christy A. Hipsley

“…Newton et al. use microCT data and geometric morphometric analyses to explore the processes underlying the convergently evolved skulls of thylacine and gray wolf. Similarities in growth trajectory are contrasted by differential developmental event timing, with origins of morphometric similarity constrained by developmental modules and embryonic tissue origins.…”
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Could direct killing by larger dingoes have caused the extinction of the thylacine from mainland Australia? by Mike Letnic, Melanie Fillios, Mathew S Crowther

“…Female thylacines would have been vulnerable to killing by dingoes. …”
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Immunological Insights into the Life and Times of the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus). by Julie M Old

“…The thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was Australia's largest marsupial carnivore until its extinction within the last century. …”
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Reconstruction of the Cortical Maps of the Tasmanian Tiger and Comparison to the Tasmanian Devil. by Gregory S Berns, Ken W S Ashwell

“…The basal ganglia reconstruction showed a more modularized pattern in the cortex of the thylacine, while the devil cortex was dominated by the putamen. …”
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Environmental management in Tasmania: better off dead? by Paull, J

“…Tasmania was the final refuge for the world’s largest marsupial carnivore, the thylacine. After tens of millennia of co-existence with the Tasmanian aborigines, the thylacine was successfully exterminated. …”

Still Life/Nature Morte by Sally Borrell

“…Paper Tiger: A Visual History of the Thylacine. Human-Animal Studies series. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. xiv + 287pp. €90, $128 pb. …”
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Enhancer of split-related-2 mRNA shows cyclic expression during somitogenesis in Xenopus laevis by Blewitt, R

“…In this project, <em>in situ</em> hybridizations were carried out on <em>bowline, Thylacine1, Enhancer of split-related-1 (ESR1), ESR2</em> and <em>ESR-5</em> in order to study their expression in relation to somitogenesis. …”

New skeletal material sheds light on the palaeobiology of the Pleistocene marsupial carnivore, Thylacoleo carnifex. by Roderick T Wells, Aaron B Camens

“…Despite being the topic of more discussion than any other extinct Australian marsupial (excepting perhaps the Thylacine), basic aspects of its palaeobiology, including its locomotory repertoire, remain poorly understood. …”
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Imperial trophy or island relict? A new extinction paradigm for Père David's deer: a Chinese conservation icon by Samuel T. Turvey, Ian Barnes, Melissa Marr, Selina Brace

“…Milu experienced a pattern of final population persistence on an island at the periphery of their former range, consistent with the ‘range eclipse’ or ‘contagion’ model of range collapse, and matching the spatial extinction dynamics of other extinct mammals such as the thylacine and woolly mammoth.…”
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CHD9 upregulates RUNX2 and has a potential role in skeletal evolution by Axel H. Newton, Andrew J. Pask

“…Here, we identify amino acid homoplasies in the chromatin remodeller CHD9, shared between the extinct marsupial thylacine and eutherian wolf which show remarkable skull convergence. …”
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Evolution of the patella and patelloid in marsupial mammals by Alice L. Denyer, Sophie Regnault, John R. Hutchinson

“…Our results, from sampling about 19% of extant marsupial species-level diversity, include new images and descriptions of the fibrocartilaginous patelloid in Thylacinus cynocephalus (the thylacine or “marsupial wolf”) and other marsupials as well as the ossified patella in Notoryctes ‘marsupial moles’, Caenolestes shrew opossums, bandicoots and bilbies. …”
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Total evidence phylogeny and evolutionary timescale for Australian faunivorous marsupials (Dasyuromorphia) by Shimona Kealy, Robin Beck

“…It includes dasyurids, the numbat (the myrmecobiid Myrmecobius fasciatus) and the recently extinct thylacine (the thylacinid Thylacinus cyncocephalus). …”
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Uniformity in the basal metabolic rate of marsupials: its causes and consequences Uniformidad en la tasa metabólica basal de marsupiales: sus causas y consecuencias by BRIAN K. MACNAB

“…The importation to mainland Australia of dingos by humans appears to have been the immediate cause for the extinction of thylacines, Tasmanian devils, and eastern quolls. Carnivorous marsupials in South America were replaced by eutherians with the completion of the Panamanian land bridge. …”
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