Faculty of Science: Recent submissions
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Genomic insights into a contagious cancer in Tasmanian devils
Published 2015-01-01The Tasmanian devil faces extinction due to a contagious cancer. Genetic and genomic technologies revealed that the disease arose in a Schwann cell of a female devil. Instead of dying with the original host, the tumour was ...Article -
Development of a SNP-based assay for measuring genetic diversity in the Tasmanian devil insurance population
Published 2015-01-01Background: The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) has undergone a recent, drastic population decline due to the highly contagious devil facial tumor disease. The tumor is one of only two naturally occurring transmissible ...Open AccessArticle -
Lack of genetic diversity across diverse immune genes in an endangered mammal, the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)
Published 2015-01-01The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is threatened with extinction due to the spread of devil facial tumour disease. Polymorphisms in immune genes can provide adaptive potential to resist diseases. Previous studies ...Open AccessArticle -
Pedigree reconstruction using molecular data reveals an early warning sign of gene diversity loss in an island population of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii)
Published 2018-01-01Tasmanian devils have experienced an 85% population decline since the emergence of an infectious cancer. In response, a captive insurance population was established in 2006 with a subpopulation later introduced onto Maria ...Article -
Preserving the demographic and genetic integrity of a single source population during multiple translocations
Published 2020-01-01Globally, conservation translocations are common often using island, or‘virtual island’populations as a source site. We investigated demographic and genetic consequences of using a single source island population for ...Article