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Publications for Michael Thompson 2021 2020 2019 Publications for Michael Thompson 2021 overview of matrotrophy and offspring size variation in Santori, C., Keith, R., Whittington, C., Thompson, M., Van echinoderms that care for their offspring. Invertebrate Dyke, J., Spencer, R. (2021). Changes in participant behaviour Reproduction and Development, 64(4), 249-261. <a and attitudes are associated with knowledge and skills gained href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07924259.2020.1764117">[Mor by using a turtle conservation citizen science app. People and e Information]</a> Nature, 3(1), 66-76. <a Laird, M., Hansen, V., McAllan, B., Murphy, C., Thompson, href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10184">[More M. (2020). Uterine epithelial remodelling during pregnancy in Information]</a> the marsupial Monodelphis domestica (Didelphidae): Santori, C., Spencer, R., Thompson, M., Whittington, C., Van Implications for mammalian placental evolution. Journal of Dyke, J. (2021). Hatchling short-necked turtles (Emydura Anatomy, 236(6), 1126-1136. <a macquarii) select aquatic vegetation habitats, but not after one href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joa.13162">[More month in captivity. Aquatic Ecology, 55(1), 85-96. <a Information]</a> href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10452-020-09813-6">[More Information]</a> 2019 Buddle, A., Van Dyke, J., Thompson, M., Simpfendorfer, C., Khan, M., Whittington, C., Thompson, M., Byrne, M. (2019). Murphy, C., Dowland, S., Whittington, C. (2021). Structure of Arrangement and size variation of intra-gonadal offspring in a the paraplacenta and the yolk sac placenta of the viviparous viviparous asterinid sea star. Zoosymposia, 15, 71-82. <a Australian sharpnose shark, Rhizoprionodon taylori. Placenta, href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.15.1.8">[More 108, 11-22. <a Information]</a> href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.placenta.2021.03.010">[More Van Dyke, J., Spencer, R., Thompson, M., Chessman, B., Information]</a> Howard, K., Georges, A. (2019). Conservation implications of 2020 turtle declines in Australia�s Murray River system. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1-12. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598- Paul, J., Kemsley, J., Butler, T., Tolosa, J., Thompson, M., 019-39096-3">[More Information]</a> Smith, R., Whittington, C. (2020). A comparison of uterine Buddle, A., Thompson, M., Lindsay, L., Murphy, C., contractile responsiveness to arginine vasopressin in oviparous Whittington, C., McAllan, B. (2019). Dynamic changes to and viviparous lizards. Journal of Comparative Physiology B: claudins in the uterine epithelial cells of the marsupial Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology, 190(1), Sminthopsis crassicaudata (Dasyuridae) during pregnancy. 49-62. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00360-019-01254- Molecular Reproduction and Development, 86(6), 639-649. <a 4">[More Information]</a> href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mrd.23140">[More Foster, C., Thompson, M., Van Dyke, J., Brandley, M., Information]</a> Whittington, C. (2020). Emergence of an evolutionary Beekman, M., Thompson, M., Jusup, M. (2019). Ectothermic innovation: Gene expression vertebrates are too cool to care: a response to comments on differences associated with the transition between oviparity Beekman et al. Behavioral Ecology, 30(3), 596-597. <a and viviparity. Molecular Ecology, 29(7), 1315-1327. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz071">[More href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.15409">[More Information]</a> Information]</a> Buddle, A., Van Dyke, J., Thompson, M., Simpfendorfer, C., Santori, C., Spencer, R., Thompson, M., Whittington, C., Burd, Whittington, C. (2019). Evolution of placentotrophy: using T., Currie, S., Finter, T., Van Dyke, J. (2020). Scavenging by viviparous sharks as a model to understand vertebrate placental threatened turtles regulates freshwater ecosystem health during evolution. Marine and Freshwater Research, 70(7), 908-924. fish kills. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 14383. <a <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF18076">[More href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71544-3">[More Information]</a> Information]</a> Laird, M., Thompson, M., Whittington, C. (2019). Facultative Santori, C., Thompson, M., Van Dyke, J., Whittington, C., oviparity in a viviparous skink (Saiphos equalis). Biology Spencer, R. (2020). Smartphone citizen science for turtles: Letters, 15(4), 1-6. <a identifying motives, usage patterns and reasons why citizens href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0827">[More stop participating. Australian Zoologist, 40(3), 438-448. <a Information]</a> href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.006">[More Information]</a> Khan, M., Whittington, C., Thompson, M., Byrne, M. (2019). Intragonadal incubation of progeny in three viviparous asterinid Buddle, A., Otway, N., Van Dyke, J., Thompson, M., Murphy, sea stars that differ in offspring provisioning, lecithotrophy vs C., Dowland, S., Simpfendorfer, C., Ellis, M., Whittington, C. matrotrophy. Marine Biology, 166(6), 1-17. <a (2020). Structural changes to the uterus of the dwarf ornate href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-019-3507-3">[More wobbegong shark (Orectolobus ornatus) during pregnancy. Information]</a> Journal of Morphology, 281, 428-437. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor.21109">[More Dudley, J., Murphy, C., Thompson, M., Lindsay, L., McAllan, Information]</a> B. (2019). Sex steroids influence the plasma membrane transformation in the uterus of the fat-tailed dunnart Khan, M., Whittington, C., Thompson, M., Byrne, M. (2020). (Sminthopsis crassicaudata, Marsupialia). Reproduction, Temporal pattern of offspring release and degree of parental Fertility and Development, 31(4), 633-644. <a investment in two viviparous asterinid sea stars with an href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/RD18202">[More Information]</a> Transformation During Early Pregnancy in the Domestic Cat (Felis catus). The Anatomical Record, 301(9), 1497-1505. <a Beekman, M., Thompson, M., Jusup, M. (2019). href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.23895">[More Thermodynamic constraints and the evolution of parental Information]</a> provisioning in vertebrates. Behavioral Ecology, 30(3), 583- 591. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz025">[More Dudley, J., Murphy, C., Thompson, M., McAllan, B. (2018). Information]</a> Uterine Receptivity in Merriam's Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys merriami). The Anatomical Record, 301(11), 1928-1935. <a 2018 href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.23891">[More Information]</a> Cornetti, L., Griffith, O., Benazzo, A., Panziera, A., Whittington, C., Thompson, M., Vernesi, C., Bertorelle, G. 2017 (2018). Candidate genes involved in the evolution of viviparity: a RAD sequencing experiment in the lizard Zootoca vivipara Griffith, O., Brandley, M., Whittington, C., Belov, K., (Squamata: Lacertidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Thompson, M. (2017). Comparative genomics of hormonal Society, 183(1), 196-207. <a signaling in the chorioallantoic membrane of oviparous and href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx069">[More viviparous amniotes. General and Comparative Endocrinology, Information]</a> 244, 19-29. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.04.017">[More Jarvie, S., Jowett, T., Thompson, M., Seddon, P., Cree, A. Information]</a> (2018). Effects of warm temperatures on metabolic rate and evaporative water loss in tuatara, a cool-climate Spencer, R., Van Dyke, J., Thompson, M. (2017). Critically rhynchocephalian survivor. Physiological and Biochemical evaluating best management practices for preventing freshwater Zoology, 91(4), 950-966. <a turtle extinctions. Conservation Biology, 31(6), 1340-1349. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/698495">[More href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12930">[More Information]</a> Information]</a> McGlashan, J., Thompson, M., Janzen, F., Spencer, R. (2018). Dudley, J., Murphy, C., Thompson, M., McAllan, B. (2017). Environmentally induced phenotypic plasticity explains Epithelial cadherin disassociates from the lateral plasma hatching synchrony in the freshwater turtle Chrysemys picta. membrane of uterine epithelial cells throughout pregnancy in a Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and marsupial. Journal of Anatomy, 231(3), 359-365. <a Integrative Physiology, 329(6-Jul), 362-372. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joa.12648">[More href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jez.2217">[More Information]</a> Information]</a> Whittington, C., Danastas, K., Grau, G., Murphy, C., Goulet, C., Michelangeli, M., Chung, M., Riley, J., Wong, B., Thompson, M. (2017). Expression of VEGF111 and other Thompson, M., Chapple, D. (2018). Evaluating cognition and VEGF-A variants in the rat uterus is correlated with stage of thermal physiology as components of the pace-of-life pregnancy. Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, syndrome. Evolutionary Ecology, 32(5), 469-488. <a Systemic, and Environmental Physiology, 187(2), 353-360. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-018-9948-1">[More href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00360-016-1040-y">[More Information]</a> Information]</a> Laird, M., McShea, H., Murphy, C., McAllan, B., Shaw, G., Goulet, C., Thompson, M., Chapple, D. (2017). Repeatability Renfree, M., Thompson, M. (2018). Non-invasive placentation and correlation of physiological traits: Do ectotherms have a in the marsupials Macropus eugenii (Macropodidae) and "thermal type"? Ecology and Evolution, 7(2), 710-719. <a Trichosurus vulpecula (Phalangeridae) involves redistribution href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2632">[More of uterine Desmoglein-2. Molecular Reproduction and Information]</a> Development, 85(1), 72-82. <a Miller, K., Duran, A., Melville,
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