...Katrien J. W. Van Look; Borys Dzyuba; Alex Cliffe; Heather J. Koldewey; William V. Holt SUMMARY Uniquely among vertebrates, seahorses and pipefishes (Family Syngnathidae)incubate their eggs within a male brood pouch. This has contributed to a widespread, but poorly founded belief, that the eggs...

...Borys Dzyuba; Katrien J. W. Van Look; Alex Cliffe; Heather J. Koldewey; William V. Holt SUMMARY Seahorses, together with the pipefishes (Family Syngnathidae), are the only vertebrates in which embryonic development takes place within a specialised body compartment, the brood pouch, of the male...

...P. A. Woolley; M. F. Patterson; G. M. Stephenson; D. G. Stephenson SUMMARY The form, function and fibre-type profiles of the ilio-marsupialis muscles,branches of which insert on to the skin of the nipples and pouch, have been investigated in the small dasyurid marsupial Sminthopsis douglasi...