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Tori Herridge
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🏛Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield 🎓PhD Evolutionary Biology🏝Islands 🐘Elephants🦣Mammoths🦷Teeth ⚒️1/4 of TrowelBlazers 📰EiC Open Quaternary 🎥🎙Presenter
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In relation to marsupial artificial uterus: *what does “culture half way through pregnancy” mean, in this context? (By what yardstick—time? Developmental stage?] * Is it a womb? Or more akin to standard lab/IVF culture 2/n

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[dunnart pregnancies are 12.5 days, but much of marsupial development takes place in the pouch with the teat replacing the placenta. Getting the pouch environment, and the shifting nutritional & hormonal content of milk, right is non-trivial] 3/n

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🏛Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield 🎓PhD Evolutionary Biology🏝Islands 🐘Elephants🦣Mammoths🦷Teeth ⚒️1/4 of TrowelBlazers 📰EiC Open Quaternary 🎥🎙Presenter
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