Genome of the endangered eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus) reveals signatures of historical decline and pelage color evolution

GA Hartley, SR Frankenberg, NM Robinson… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
… The eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus) is an endangered … Here, we generated a reference
genome for the eastern quoll … differences between the eastern quoll and the closely related …

Environmental DNA detection of spot-tailed quoll from soil is unlikely to be useful for routine monitoring

LC White, JL Nelson, M Cardoso, C Pacioni - Wildlife Research, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
… collected from a captive quoll enclosure. We then … quoll defecation sites (latrines) and from
broader quoll habitat. We used amplification success data to model the concentration of quoll

Scat contents of a spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) reveal evidence of broad-toothed rat (Mastacomys fuscus) within a fragmented habitat in the Hunter …

T Henderson, C Nest - Australian Mammalogy, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
We found evidence of a broad-toothed rat (Mastacomys fuscus) in a spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus
maculatus) scat collected within a fragmented site in the Hunter Valley, New South …

Rapid change in anti‐predator behaviour of a threatened marsupial after thousands of years of isolation from predators

JM Waaleboer, LK Van der Weyde… - Austral Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… We found that after 6 years of quoll exposure, quoll-exposed bandicoots had significantly …
Quoll-exposed bandicoots also selected nests with increased vegetation cover, preferring …

Are subadult dispersers at high risk of mortality in translocated populations? A case study from a threatened mesopredator

J Bilby, K Moseby - Austral Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… geoffroii) to determine whether natal dispersal constitutes a period of high risk and how it
may influence persistence of reintroduced quoll populations. Radio-collared subadults were …

Disease-driven top predator decline affects mesopredator population genomic structure

MA Beer, KM Proft, A Veillet, CP Kozakiewicz… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
… increase quoll genetic subdivision over time, despite no change in quoll densities detected
by camera trap studies. Devil density also contributes to signatures of selection in the quoll

Movement ecology of an endangered mesopredator in a mining landscape

MA Cowan, JA Dunlop, LA Gibson, HA Moore… - Movement Ecology, 2024 - Springer
… To compare the composition of landscapes within ‘observed’ quoll movement ranges with
… To define the boundaries for the available landscape for each quoll, we followed methods …

Manganese Exacerbates Seasonal Health Declines in a Suicidally Breeding Mammal

AF Amir Abdul Nasir, AC Niehaus… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… The location of each captured quoll was recorded via GPS (Garmin e-Trex 20, Garmin Ltd., …
sampling required approximately one hour per individual quoll. We trapped only during the …

Midnight siesta: Bimodal temporal activity observed in an endangered marsupial predator

HA Moore, RL Diete, NL Indigo, MA Cowan… - Austral …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… However, there is emerging evidence to suggest that northern quoll temporal activity … Here,
we build on these observations by comparing northern quoll temporal activity patterns across …

Top predator decline has evolutionary as well as ecological effects

K Minton - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
… They then used three main approaches to analyse how quoll … density and the number of
quoll generations for which DFTD … 15 or 20 quoll generations prior to quoll sample collection to …