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Density of a cryptic Australian small mammal: The threatened Julia Creek dunnart (Sminthopsis douglasi) [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionGlobally, hundreds of mammal species face the threat of extinction in the coming decades, and in many cases, their ecology remains poorly understood. Fundamental ecological knowledge is crucial for effective conservation management of these species, but ...
Alice H. Bakker +5 more
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Ecology and EvolutionGlobal biodiversity loss continues unabated, and in Australia, the rate of recent mammal extinctions is among the worst in the world. Meanwhile, the diversity among and within many endemic mammal species remains undescribed.
Linette S. Umbrello +4 more
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Ecology and EvolutionApproximately 30% of the world's biodiversity has been threatened or driven to extinction since the 1500s, with Australia losing 10% of its endemic terrestrial mammal species in the last 200 years.
Dana A. Lockhart +6 more
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Ecology and EvolutionLogistical, environmental and temporal considerations can limit the effectiveness of long‐term live trapping for small mammals in remote environments.
Cameron L. Charley +2 more
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A Burst of Numt Insertion in the Dasyuridae Family During Marsupial Evolution
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Nuclear pseudogenes of mitochondrial origin (numts) are common in all eukaryotes. Our previous scan of numts in sequenced nuclear genomes suggested that the highest numt content currently known in animals is that in the gray short-tailed opossum.
Einat Hazkani-Covo
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Range-Wide Assessment of the Tasmanian Devil Gut Microbiome. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe conducted a comprehensive assessment of gut microbiomes at 10 locations across Tasmania, utilizing molecular methods such as 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and diet metabarcoding to investigate the influences of diet, location, sex, and age. Contrary to the prevailing notion that diet is a main driver of gut microbiome differences, we found that ...
Molloy MM +4 more
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Breeding fat-tailed dunnarts (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) in captivity: Revised practices to minimize stress whilst maintaining considerations of wild biology. [PDF]
Dev DynAbstract Background The fat‐tailed dunnart is a small dasyurid marsupial which is emerging as a robust laboratory model for conservation, developmental, and reproductive biology research. While these marsupials present extremely valuable models, housing non‐domesticated animals in captivity can present a wide range of potential stressors for the ...
Scicluna EL +7 more
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021 In this announcement, we report the complete mitogenome of the vulnerable Crest-tailed Mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda) (Krefft, 1867). The mitogenome was 17,085 bp in length and contained 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNA genes, 22 tRNAs and a 1583 bp ...
Jaco D. Zandberg +4 more
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Sarcophilus harrisii (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae) [PDF]
Mammalian Species, 2017 The Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii (Boitard, 1842), the largest surviving marsupial carnivore, is endemic to Tasmania. The size of a small stocky dog, with males weighing 9 kg and females 6 kg, S. harrisii is a scavenger of large mammals and opportunistic predator of vertebrates.
Robert K. Rose +3 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 While the gross skull and dental morphology, masticatory biomechanics, dental eruption patterns, and radiographic dental anatomy has been described in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), to date no studies have comprehensively examined the ...
Shanna Landy +3 more
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