Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Metatheria, or having their characters: as, a metatherian mammal; the metatherian type.
- noun A member of the Metatheria.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any of a group of primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Belonging or pertaining to the infraclass
Metatheria ofmarsupials . - noun A member of the infraclass
Metatheria .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas
Etymologies
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From Metatheria, from Ancient Greek μετά (meta, "changed") + θηρίον (thērion, "beast").
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By integrating phylogenetics of novel vtg transcripts from old and modern teleosts with syntenic analyses of all available genomic variants of non-metatherian vertebrates we identify the gene orthologies between the Sarcopterygii (tetrapod branch) and Actinopterygii (fish branch).
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