Choose one of the animals in the illustrations and find out more about them. Can you write a non-chronological report about them?​ School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia Adams-Hosking, C. et al. Use of expert knowledge to elicit population trends for the koala ( Phascolarctos cinereus). Divers. Distrib. 22, 249–262 (2016). Department of the Environment. Phascolarctos cinereus (combined populations of Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory) in Species Profile and Threats Database (Department of the Environment, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2016). Lynch, M. et al. Genetic drift, selection and the evolution of the mutation rate. Nat. Rev. Genet. 17, 704–714 (2016).

Saving koalas: Gene study promises solution to deadly sex Saving koalas: Gene study promises solution to deadly sex

Your children can use the mat to complete the other resource or they can use the mat to help with independent writing. Kimble, B. et al. In vitro hepatic microsomal metabolism of meloxicam in koalas ( Phascolarctos cinereus), brushtail possums ( Trichosurus vulpecula), ringtail possums ( Pseudocheirus peregrinus), rats ( Rattus norvegicus) and dogs ( Canis lupus familiaris). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C Toxicol. Pharmacol. 161, 7–14 (2014). A specialist arboreal folivore feeding almost exclusively from Eucalyptus spp., the koala has a diet that would be toxic or fatal to most other mammals 3. Due to the low caloric content of this diet, the koala rests and sleeps up to 22 h a day 4. A detailed understanding of the mechanisms by which koalas detoxify eucalyptus and protect their young in the pouch has been elusive, as there are no koala research colonies and access to milk and tissue samples is opportunistic. The genome enables unprecedented insights into the unique biology of the koala, without having to harm or disturb an animal of conservation concern. Your class will either create adjectives of their own of choose from the word bank. We have differentiated this resource five ways to cater for Y1 and Y2 classes.Holt, C. & Yandell, M. MAKER2: an annotation pipeline and genome-database management tool for second-generation genome projects. BMC Bioinformatics 12, 491 (2011). Faculty of Science, Health, Education & Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia

The Koala Who Could Written by Rachel Bright Illustrated by

Woinarski, J. C., Burbidge, A. A. & Harrison, P. L. Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112, 4531–4540 (2015).

Write a diary entry from Kevin’s point of view for the day after his tree fell down. How does he feel about what happened? How has his life changed? Alfano, N. et al. Endogenous gibbon ape leukemia virus identified in a rodent ( Melomys burtoni subsp.) from Wallacea (Indonesia). J. Virol. 90, 8169–8180 (2016). Davies, N. M. & Skjodt, N. M. Clinical pharmacokinetics of meloxicam. A cyclo-oxygenase-2 preferential nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Clin. Pharmacokinet. 36, 115–126 (1999). We have also includes a question and answers matching activity. It might be useful to let your class cut out the questions and answers and match as many as they can.

The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright illustrated by Jim Field The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright illustrated by Jim Field

The Phascolarctos cinereus BioSamples are as follows: Bilbo 61053, SAMN06198159; Pacific Chocolate, SAMEA91939168; Birke. SAMEA103910665. Koala Genome Consortium Projects for the Koala Whole Genome Shotgun project and genome assembly are registered under the umbrella BioProject PRJEB19389 (union of PRJEB5196 and PRJNA359763). Cheng, Y. et al. Characterisation of MHC class I genes in the koala. Immunogenetics 70, 125–133 (2018). The questions reinforce your student’s understanding of The Koala Who Could and respond to the book by making connections, making plausible predictions and formulating new questions. They will analyze the characters, determine their point of view, analyze the problem and solution, and much more! We have taken some of the lovely vocabulary used in the book to improve the understanding of your children of those words.Saltré, F. et al. Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia. Nat. Commun. 7, 10511 (2016). Understanding the genetics of host resistance to chlamydia and the etiology of the retrovirus will help inform the development of vaccines against both diseases, as well as translocation strategies. Genome-informed conservation

The Koala Who Could - Teaching Ideas

Walker, B. J. et al. Pilon: an integrated tool for comprehensive microbial variant detection and genome assembly improvement. PLoS One 9, e112963 (2014). Seymour, A. M. et al. High effective inbreeding coefficients correlate with morphological abnormalities in populations of South Australian koalas ( Phascolarctos cinereus). Anim. Conserv. 4, 211–219 (2001). Hansen, J., Sato, M., Russell, G. & Kharecha, P. Climate sensitivity, sea level and atmospheric carbon dioxide. Philos. Trans. A Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 371, 20120294 (2013). Katoh, K. & Standley, D. M. MAFFT multiple sequence alignment software version 7: improvements in performance and usability. Mol. Biol. Evol. 30, 772–780 (2013). Clarkson, C. et al. Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago. Nature 547, 306–310 (2017).

Hope & Inspiration:

Freeland, W.J. & Janzen, D.H. Strategies in herbivory by mammals: the role of plant secondary compounds. Am. Nat. 108, 269–289 https://doi.org/10.1086/282907 (1974). Liao, Y., Smyth, G. K. & Shi, W. featureCounts: an efficient general purpose program for assigning sequence reads to genomic features. Bioinformatics 30, 923–930 (2014). Phillips, S. S. Population trends and the koala conservation debate. Conserv. Biol. 14, 650–659 (2000). Department of Translational Genetics, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus