Molecular survey for Chlamydia among southern greater gliders (Petauroides volans) from southeastern New South Wales, Australia.

Southern greater gliders (Petauroides volans) are endangered Australian marsupials for which there is little health data currently available. Chlamydia pecorum is the only reported pathogen of greater gliders and infects a broad range of hosts, including other marsupials, ruminants, swine and birds. Conjunctival and cloacal swabs collected from thirty-two southern greater gliders across southeastern New South Wales, Australia were screened for Chlamydia spp.

Novel amino acid distance matrices based on conductance measure.

Ancestral relationships among biological species are often represented and analyzed by means of phylogenetic trees. Substitution and distance matrices are two main types of matrices that are used in phylogeny analyses. Substitution matrices describe a frequency change of amino acids in nucleotide or protein sequence over time, while distance matrices estimate phylogeny using a matrix of pairwise distances based on a particular code or analytical concept.

Informing Wildlife Corridor Creation through Population Genetics of an Arboreal Marsupial in a Fragmented Landscape.

Habitat loss and fragmentation contribute significantly to the decline of arboreal mammal populations. As populations become fragmented and isolated, a reduction in gene flow can result in a loss of genetic diversity and have an overall impact upon long-term persistence. Creating wildlife corridors can mitigate such effects by increasing the movement and dispersal of animals, thus acting to reduce population isolation.

Conservation genomics of an endangered arboreal mammal following the 2019-2020 Australian megafire.

The impacts of a changing climate threaten species, populations and ecosystems. Despite these significant and large-scale impacts on threatened species, many remain understudied and have little to no genetic information available. The greater glider, Petauroides volans, is an endangered species highly sensitive to the predicted changes in temperature under a changing climate and was recently severely impacted by a megafire natural disaster (85% estimated population loss).

Estimating the density of small mammals using the selfie trap is an effective camera trapping method.

Unlabelled: Camera trapping to study wildlife allows for data collection, without the need to capture animals. Traditionally, camera traps have been used to target larger terrestrial mammal species, though recently novel methods and adjustments in procedures have meant camera traps can be used to study small mammals. The selfie trap (a camera trapping method) may present robust sampling and ecological study of small mammals.