ArticleThe Journal of applied ecology2018
Density trends and demographic signals uncover the long-term impact of transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils.
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- Metabolic pathways fuelling devil facial tumour diseases.The FEBS journal · 2026Article
- Tyrosine kinase targeting uncovers oncogenic pathway plasticity in Tasmanian devil transmissible cancers.The EMBO journal · 2026Article
- Boost or Bust? The Impact of Supplementation on Functional Genetic Diversity and Selective Processes in Tasmanian Devils.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Temporal Changes in Tasmanian Devil Genetic Diversity at Sites With and Without Supplementation.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- The devil in more detail: Eco-evolutionary genomics of Tasmanian devil persistence despite range-wide spread of a fatal, transmissible cancer.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
- No Evidence for Distinct Transcriptomic Subgroups of Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD).Evolutionary applications · 2025Article
- Land use influences the faecal glucocorticoid metabolites of multiple species across trophic levels.Conservation physiology · 2025Article
- When Do Tumours Develop? Neoplastic Processes Across Different Timescales: Age, Season and Round the Circadian Clock.Evolutionary applications · 2024Review
- Invasion and Amplification of Endogenous Retroviruses in Dasyuridae Marsupial Genomes.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- The Known and Unknown: Investigating the Carcinogenic Potential of Plastic Additives.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
- Human habitat modification, not apex scavenger decline, drives isotopic niche variation in a carnivore community.Oecologia · 2024Article
- No evidence that a transmissible cancer has shifted from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Intergenomic signatures of coevolution between Tasmanian devils and an infectious cancer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Is a blunt sword pointless? Tooth wear impacts puncture performance in Tasmanian devil canines.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Complex associations between cancer progression and immune gene expression reveals early influence of transmissible cancer on Tasmanian devils.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Article
- Transcriptomics of mussel transmissible cancer MtrBTN2 suggests accumulation of multiple cancer traits and oncogenic pathways shared among bilaterians.Open biology · 2023Article
- The tumour is in the detail: Local phylogenetic, population and epidemiological dynamics of a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils.Evolutionary applications · 2023Article
- The evolution of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Divergent hepaciviruses, delta-like viruses, and a chu-like virus in Australian marsupial carnivores (dasyurids).Virus evolution · 2023Article
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Abstract
1. Monitoring the response of wild mammal populations to threatening processes is fundamental to effective conservation management. This is especially true for infectious diseases, which may have dynamic and therefore unpredictable interactions with their host. 2. We investigate the long-term impact of a transmissible cancer, devil facial tumour disease (DFTD), on the endemic Tasmanian devil. We analyse trends in devil spot-light counts and density across the area impacted by the disease. We investigate the demographic parameters which might be driving these trends, and use spatial capture-recapture models to examine whether DFTD has affected home range size. 3. We found that devils have declined by an average of 77% in areas affected by DFTD, and that there is a congruent trend of ongoing small decline in spotlight counts and density estimates. Despite this, devils have persisted to date within each of nine monitoring sites. One site is showing as yet unexplained small increases in density 8-10 years after the emergence of DFTD. 4. We also found the prevalence of DFTD has not abated despite large declines in density and that diseased sites continue to be dominated by young devils. The long-term impact of the disease has been partially offset by increased fecundity in the form of precocial breeding in 1-year-old females, and more pouch young per female in diseased sites. The lower densities resulting from DFTD did not affect home range size. 5.
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