title: Marsupials indeed confirm an ancestral mammalian pattern: a reply to Isler.
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. vw248@cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Vera
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Weisbecker
authors.forename: Anjali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goswami
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001481:Basal Metabolism; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001921:Brain / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism*; D008394:Marsupialia / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism*; D009929:Organ Size / Q000502:physiology; D012098:Reproduction / Q000502:physiology