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 …

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 …

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 …

The contribution of kurī (Polynesian dog) to the ecological impacts of the human settlement of Aotearoa New Zealand

K Greig, NJ Rawlence - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The pre-human Aotearoa New Zealand fauna was dominated by avian and reptilian
species. Prior to first human settlement by East Polynesian colonists, the top predators were …

Identifying marsupials from Australian archaeological sites: current methodological challenges and opportunities in zooarchaeological practice

E Mein, T Manne - Archaeology in Oceania, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We review current zooarchaeological practice in Australia, identifying major research
themes and key methodological gaps where opportunities exist for the development of …

Genomic signatures of bottleneck and founder effects in dingoes

M Kumar, G Conroy, S Ogbourne, K Cairns… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dingoes arrived in Australia during the mid‐Holocene and are the top‐order terrestrial
predator on the continent. Although dingoes subsequently spread across the continent, the …

Phenotypic diversity in early Australian dingoes revealed by traditional and 3D geometric morphometric analysis

LG Koungoulos, A Hulme-Beaman, M Fillios… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The dingo is a wild dog endemic to Australia with enigmatic origins. Dingoes are one of two
remaining unadmixed populations of an early East Asian dog lineage, the other being wild …

Shape analysis of fossa masseterica and processus coronoideus in domestic cats (Felis catus) and domestic dogs (Canis familiaris)

O Gündemir - Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fossa masseterica, to which the musculus masseter is attached, is the pit on the lateral
surface of the ramus mandibulae. Processus coronoideus is a protrusion on the upper part …

The Australasian dingo archetype: de novo chromosome-length genome assembly, DNA methylome, and cranial morphology

JWO Ballard, MA Field, RJ Edwards, LAB Wilson… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background One difficulty in testing the hypothesis that the Australasian dingo is a functional
intermediate between wild wolves and domesticated breed dogs is that there is no reference …

Dingoes and domestication

A Brumm - Archaeology in Oceania, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aboriginal Australians are known to have routinely taken dingo pups from wild dens to rear
as companion animals, with the mature canids typically returning to the bush to mate …