Faculty of Science: Recent submissions
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A case study in model failure? COVID-19 daily deaths and ICU bed utilisation predictions in New York state
Published 2020Forecasting models have been influential in shaping decision-making in the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is concern that their predictions may have been misleading. Here, we dissect the predictions made by four models ...Article -
The Role of Climate During the COVID-19 epidemic in New South Wales, Australia
Published 2020Previous research has identified a relationship between climate and occurrence of SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV cases, information that can be used to reduce the risk of infection. Using COVID-19 notification and postcode data ...Preprint -
Variants in the host genome may inhibit tumour growth in devil facial tumours: evidence from genome-wide association
Published 2017-01-01Devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) has decimated wild populations of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) due to its ability to avoid immune detection and pass from host to host by biting. A small number of devils have ...Open AccessArticle -
Are any populations ‘safe’? Unexpected reproductive decline in a population of Tasmanian devils free of devil facial tumour disease
Published 2018-01-01Context. Conservation management relies on baseline demographic data of natural populations. For Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii), threatened in the wild by two fatal and transmissible cancers (devil facial tumour ...Article -
No evidence of inbreeding depression in a Tasmanian devil insurance population despite significant variation in inbreeding
Published 2017-01-01Inbreeding depression occurs when inbred individuals experience reduced fitness as a result of reduced genome-wide heterozygosity. The Tasmanian devil faces extinction due to a contagious cancer, devil facial tumour disease ...Open AccessArticle