Paul Sunnucks

TL;DR: The findings suggest that P. australis engages in group discrimination, and that patterns of association may reflect an underlying preference for unfamiliar and/or genetically dissimilar individuals in a species encumbered by restricted gene flow.

TL;DR: Evidence for mildly differentiated populations at the range extremes on either side of Spencer Gulf is found, with secondary contact between locations neighbouring each side of the barrier, and estimates indicate modest, but complex gene flow patterns among some of these regions, in some cases possibly restricted for several thousand years.

TL;DR: It was found that hybrids at the focal contact zone do not have reduced embryo-to-adult survival compared with non-hybrids, and that races apparently freely interbreed without substantial assortative mating, consistent with little or no cost to hybridization.

TL;DR: The recent decline of this species and the difficulties faced by researchers collecting field data has prompted the development of a suite of polymorphic microsatellite markers for application to the continuing conservation of the Leadbeater's possum.

TL;DR: The genome assembly and linkage map suggest that the helmeted honeyeater exhibits a fission of chromosome 1A into 2 chromosomes relative to zebra finch.