New Research by a consortium at the Universities of Nottingham, Queensland and Adelaide has thrown up the possibility that koalas in South Australia may have a version of koala retrovirus hiding in their genomes that prevents infectious counterpart from getting into...
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KoRV may offer protection for koalas in South Australia
Chlamydia, chlamydia everywhere (and now in ticks…)!
A series of recent studies by researchers at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) in collaboration with a range of partners across the country have revealed that (i) koalas are not the only marsupial hosts of chlamydial infections and that (ii) Chlamydia...
Blue Mountains Koala Project Presentation
We have some fascinating results to share now that we are three years into the Project. We've come a long way from the popular idea that there are no koalas in the mountains, so far in fact that our research is indicating this region supports one of the most...
Feature: The genetically diverse and important South Gippsland koala population
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, habitat loss, bushfires and hunting for the commercial fur trade led to widespread population declines and localised extinctions of koalas across Victoria. Mainland koala populations were later re-established throughout the state by...