Monotremata

Other Names for Monotremata

• Vernacular Names: monotremes

References

Archer, M., T. F. Flannery, A. Ritchie, and R. E. Molnar. 1985. First Mesozoic mammal from Australia-An early Cretaceous monotreme. Nature 318:363-366.

Archer, M., P. Murray, S. Hand, and H. Godthelp. 1993. Reconsideration of monotreme relationships based on the skull and dentition of the Miocence Obduron dicksoni. Pages 75-94 in Mammal Phylogeny. Volume 1. Mesozoic Differentiation, Multituberculates, Monotremes, Early Eutherians, and Marsupials. (F. S. Szalay, M. J. Novacek, and M. C. McKenna, eds.). Springer Verlag, New York.

Augee, M. L., ed. 1992. Platypus and Echidnas. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.

Flannery, T. F., M. Archer, T. H. Rich, and R. Jones. A new family of monotremes from the Cretaceous of Australia. Nature 377:418-420.

Gemmell, N. J., T.R. Grant, P.S. Western, J. Walmsley, J. M. Watson, N.D. Murray, and J.A. Marshall Graves. 1995. Determining platypus relationships. Australian Journal of Zoology 43:283-291.

Griffiths, M. 1978. The Biology of the Monotremes. Academic Press, New York.

Griffiths, M. 1999. Monotremes. Pages 295–302 in Encyclopedia of Reproduction, vol. 3. J.D. Neill, ed. Academic Press, San Diego.

Grützner, F., J. Deakin, W. Rens, N. El-Mogharbel and J.A. Marshall Graves. 2003. The monotreme genome: a patchwork of reptile, mammal and unique features? Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A. Molecular and Integreative Physiology 136(4):867–881.

Grützner, F. and J.A. Marshall Graves. 2004. A platypus’ eye view of the mammalian genome. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 14(6):642-649.

Macrini, T. E., T. Rowe, and M. Archer. 2006. Description of a cranial endocast from a fossil platypus, Obdurodon dicksoni (Monotremata, Ornithorhynchidae), and the relevance of endocranial characters to monotreme monophyly. Journal of Morphology 267(8):1000-1015.

Marshall-Graves, J. A. 1996. Mammals that break the rules: genetics of marsupials and monotremes. Annual Review of Genetics 30:233–266.

Musser, A. M. 2003. Review of the monotreme fossil record and comparison of palaeontological and molecular data. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A. Molecular and Integreative Physiology 136(4):927-942.

Musser, A. M. and M. Archer. 1998. New information about the skull and dentary of the Miocene platypus Obdurodon dicksoni, and a discussion of ornithorhynchid relationships. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 353:1063-1079.

Pascual, R. M. Archer, E. O. Juareguizar, J. L. Prado, H. Godthelp, and S. J. Hand. 1992. First discovery of monotremes in South America. Nature 356:704-706.

Retief, J. D., R. J. Winkfein, and G. H. Dixon. 1993. Evolution of the monotremes - the sequences of the protamine p1 genes of platypus and echidna. European Journal of Biochemistry 218:457-461.

Rich, T. H., J. A. Hopson, A. M. Musser, T. F. Flannery, and P. Vickers-Rich. 2005. Independent origins of middle ear bones in monotremes and therians. Science 307:910-914.

Rowe, T., T. H. Rich, P. Vickers-Rich, M. Springer, and M. O. Woodburne. 2008. The oldest platypus and its bearing on divergence timing of the platypus and echidna clades. Proceeding of the National Academy of Science (USA)105(4):1238-1242.

Wilson, D. E., and D. M. Reeder, eds. 2005. Mammal Species of the World. Third Edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.

Information on the Internet

• Order Monotremata. Animal Diversity Web. University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
• Systematics of the Monotremata. UCMP Berkeley.