Genome‐wide variant analyses reveal new patterns of admixture and population structure in Australian dingoes

KM Cairns, MS Crowther, HG Parker… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Admixture between species is a cause for concern in wildlife management. Canids are
particularly vulnerable to interspecific hybridisation, and genetic admixture has shaped their …

Geographic hot spots of dingo genetic ancestry in southeastern Australia despite hybridisation with domestic dogs

KM Cairns, BJ Nesbitt, SW Laffan, M Letnic… - Conservation …, 2020 - Springer
Hybridisation resulting from human-driven shifts in species ranges is a global conservation
concern. In Australia, hybridisation between dingoes (Canis dingo) and domestic dogs …

An isolated population reveals greater genetic structuring of the Australian dingo

D Stephens, PJS Fleming, E Sawyers, TP Mayr - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The Australian dingo is a recent anthropogenic addition to the Australian fauna, which
spread rapidly across the continent and has since widely interbred with modern dogs …

Elucidating biogeographical patterns in Australian native canids using genome wide SNPs

KM Cairns, LM Shannon, J Koler-Matznick… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Dingoes play a strong role in Australia's ecological framework as the apex predator but are
under threat from hybridization and agricultural control programs. Government legislation …

What is a dingo–origins, hybridisation and identity

KM Cairns - Australian Zoologist, 2021 - meridian.allenpress.com
Controversy about the nomenclature and taxonomy of dingoes has sparked interest in their
complex identity. At the root of taxonomy debates are differences in the species concepts …

Genetic profile of dingoes (Canis lupus dingo) and free-roaming domestic dogs (C. l. familiaris) in the Tanami Desert, Australia

TM Newsome, D Stephens, GA Ballard… - Wildlife …, 2013 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Many rare and endangered species are threatened by the effects of hybridisation
with their domesticated and often numerically dominant relatives. However, factors that …

Death by sex in an Australian icon: A continent‐wide survey reveals extensive hybridization between dingoes and domestic dogs

D Stephens, AN Wilton, PJS Fleming… - Molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hybridization between domesticated animals and their wild counterparts can disrupt
adaptive gene combinations, reduce genetic diversity, extinguish wild populations and …

[PDF][PDF] The molecular ecology of Australian wild dogs: hybridisation, gene flow and genetic structure at multiple geographic scales

D Stephens - 2011 - pestsmart.org.au
Advances in molecular ecology, particularly over the past two decades, have allowed
studies of populations to extend to increasingly broad geographic and temporal scales …

The myth of wild dogs in Australia: are there any out there?

KM Cairns, MS Crowther, B Nesbitt… - Australian …, 2021 - CSIRO Publishing
Hybridisation between wild and domestic canids is a global conservation and management
issue. In Australia, dingoes are a distinct lineage of wild-living canid with a controversial …

Ancient genomes reveal over two thousand years of dingo population structure

Y Souilmi, S Wasef, MP Williams, G Conroy… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Dingoes are culturally and ecologically important free-living canids whose ancestors arrived
in Australia over 3,000 BP, likely transported by seafaring people. However, the early history …