HEMATOLOGY AND SERUM BIOCHEMISTRY OF THE BRUSH-TAILED ROCK-WALLABY (PETROGALE PENICILLATA)

Diversity of Cryptosporidium in brush-tailed rock-wallabies (Petrogale penicillata) managed within a species recovery programme

Host-parasite relationships are likely to be impacted by conservation management practices, potentially increasing the susceptibility of wildlife to emerging disease. Cryptosporidium, a parasitic protozoan genus comprising host-adapted and host-specific species, was used as an indicator of parasite movement between populations of a threatened marsupial, the brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale ...

The Effects of Provisioning on Behavior of the Allied Rock-Wallaby (Petrogale assimilis)

Three divergent lineages within an Australian marsupial (Petrogale penicillata) suggest multiple major refugia for mesic taxa in southeast Australia

Mesic southeastern Australia represents the continent's ancestral biome and is highly biodiverse, yet its phylogeographic history remains poorly understood. Here, we examine mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region and microsatellite diversity in the brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata;n = 279 from 31 sites), to assess historic evolutionary and biogeographic processes in southeaste...

Gene flow despite complex Robertsonian fusions among rock-wallaby (Petrogale) species.

Complex Robertsonian rearrangements, with shared arms in different fusions, are expected to prevent gene flow between hybrids through missegregation during meiosis. Here, we estimate gene flow between recently diverged and chromosomally diverse rock-wallabies (Petrogale) to test for this form of chromosomal speciation. Contrary to expectations, we observe relatively high admixture among species...

Designing Elicitor: Software to Graphically Elicit Expert Priors for Logistic Regression Models in Ecology. 2006

ELICITOR is graphical elicitation software created to elicit normal prior distributions for a Bayesian logistic regression model. Motivated by a real need to include expert knowledge in presence–absence models in ecology, this research describes a synthesis of theory from statistics, psychology and ecology. The aim was to build elicitation software that would be user friendly to environmental s...