Projects

1) Magnetic resonance imaging of monotreme and marsupial brains

Goal: 1. Study the microanatomy of the brains of rare and endangered species with magnetic resonance imaging.
Goal 2. Trace major pathways in the brains of marsupials and monotremes

References to this project:

Brain and behaviour of Dromiciops gliroides

Article,  Full-text available, Published Jun 2020, Journal of Mammalian Evolution

Authors: Yamila Gurovich and Ken W S Ashwell

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brains of Three Peramelemorphian Marsupials

Article, Full-text available Sep 2019 Journal of Mammalian Evolution

Authors: Yamila Gurovich, Andre Bongers and Ken W S Ashwell

Quantitative analysis of forebrain pallial morphology in monotremes and comparison with that in therians Published in April 2019 in Zoology 134

DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2019.04.002

Lab: Ken W S Ashwell's Lab

Authors: Ken W S Ashwell and Yamila Gurovich

Magnetic resonance imaging of the brains of three peramelemorphian marsupials

Poster, Full-text available Presented in Jul 2017 by Yamila Gurovich, Craig Hardman, Andre Bongers and Ken W. S Ashwell

2) Marsupial Development

Gurovich and Ashwell abstract SVP 2019 p112

Conference Paper, Full-text available Presented at SVP Oct 2019 Authors: Yamila Gurovich and Ken W S Ashwell

The oral shield: A typical marsupial structure

Conference Paper, Presented in Nov 2014 Authors: Yamila Gurovich and Nanette Yvette Schneider

Morphology and evolution of the oral shield in marsupial newborn pouch young.

Presentation, Full-text available, presented Jul 2017 authors: Yamila Gurovich

Morphology and evolution of the oral shield in marsupial neonates including the newborn monito del monte (Dromiciops gliroides, Marsupialia Microbiotheria) pouch young

Article, published Jun 2017 in Journal of Anatomy authors: Nanette Yvette Schneider and Yamila Gurovich