"Phascolarctidae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of marsupials in the order Diprotodontia, native to Australia and possessing vestigial tails. There is a single living genus and species: Phascolarctos cinereus, the koala.
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D048368
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.573.590
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Phascolarctidae" by people in Profiles.
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Chappell KJ, Blyton MBJ, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE. Adaptive evolution of koala retrovirus transcription silencing and what it means for conservation. Clin Transl Med. 2025 Jul; 15(7):e70343.
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Yu T, Blyton MBJ, Abajorga M, Koppetsch BS, Ho S, Xu B, Hu Z, Luban J, Chappell K, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE. Evolution of KoRV-A transcriptional silencing in wild koalas. Cell. 2025 Apr 17; 188(8):2081-2093.e16.
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Tarlinton RE, Legione AR, Sarker N, Fabijan J, Meers J, McMichael L, Simmons G, Owen H, Seddon JM, Dick G, Ryder JS, Hemmatzedah F, Trott DJ, Speight N, Holmes N, Loose M, Emes RD. Differential and defective transcription of koala retrovirus indicates the complexity of host and virus evolution. J Gen Virol. 2022 06; 103(6).
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Yu T, Koppetsch BS, Pagliarani S, Johnston S, Silverstein NJ, Luban J, Chappell K, Weng Z, Theurkauf WE. The piRNA Response to Retroviral Invasion of the Koala Genome. Cell. 2019 10 17; 179(3):632-643.e12.