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The tammar wallaby: a non-traditional animal model to study growth axis maturation

Jennifer A. Hetz A B * , Brandon R. Menzies A C * , Geoffrey Shaw A and Marilyn B. Renfree A
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A School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia.

B Escuela de Agronomía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Casilla 4-D, Quillota, Región de Valparaíso, Chile.

C Corresponding author. Email: menziesb@unimelb.edu.au

Reproduction, Fertility and Development 31(7) 1276-1288 https://doi.org/10.1071/RD18271
Submitted: 15 July 2018  Accepted: 26 March 2019   Published: 29 April 2019

Abstract

Maturation of the growth hormone (GH)/insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) axis is a critical developmental event that becomes functional over the peripartum period in precocial eutherian mammals such as sheep. In mice and marsupials that give birth to altricial young, the GH/IGF1 axis matures well after birth, suggesting that functional maturation is associated with developmental stage, not parturition. Recent foster-forward studies in one marsupial, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), have corroborated this hypothesis. ‘Fostering’ tammar young not only markedly accelerates their development and growth rates, but also affects the timing of maturation of the growth axis compared with normal growing young, providing a novel non-traditional animal model for nutritional manipulation. This review discusses how nutrition affects the maturation of the growth axis in marsupials compared with traditional eutherian animal models.

Additional keywords: development, endocrinology, gene expression, IGF1, IGF2, mammal, nutrition.


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